SCHEDULE 2Scheme flexibilities

PART 1General

Meaning of “overall amount of extra pension”

3.

(1)

The overall amount of extra pension is—

(a)

£6,500 for any financial year ending before 1st April 2016; and

(b)

for any financial year beginning on or after that date—

(i)

an amount determined by the Department of Finance and Personnel for that financial year; or

(ii)

if the Department of Finance and Personnel has not determined an amount for that financial year, the amount calculated under sub-paragraph (2).

(2)

If the Department of Finance and Personnel has not determined an amount under sub-paragraph (1)(b)(i) for any financial year, the overall amount is the amount to which the annual rate of a pension of an amount equal to the overall amount for the previous financial year would have been increased under the Pensions Increases Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 if—

(a)

that pension were eligible to be so increased; and

(b)

the beginning date for that pension were the first day of the previous financial year.