Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2015 No. 161

Public Service Pensions

The Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (Judicial Offices) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

Made

10th March 2015

Coming into operation

1st April 2015

Marginal Citations

Citation and commencementN.I.

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (Judicial Offices) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 and comes into operation on 1st April 2015.

InterpretationN.I.

2.  For the purposes of this Order, an office is “held on a salaried basis” if service in that office is remunerated by payment of a salary.

Judicial OfficesN.I.

3.  A person who holds one of the offices specified in the Schedule is a holder of judicial office for the purposes of section 1(2)(b) of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 10th March 2015

L.S.

David Ford

Minister of Justice

Article 3

SCHEDULEN.I.Specified Judicial Offices

President of appeals tribunals (within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 M2) appointed under Article 6 of that Order.

Marginal Citations

M2S.1. 1998/1506 (N.1. 10)

Member of a panel constituted under Article 7(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 who is appointed to serve as a member of that panel and is a barrister or solicitor.

President or Vice-President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal, appointed under Article 82 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 M3.

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F1...

F2...

[F3Member of a panel of employment judges appointed in accordance with regulation 7(1)(a) of the Industrial Tribunals and Fair Employment Tribunal (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020.]

President or other member of the Lands Tribunal M4, where that office is held on a salaried basis.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies those judicial offices, holders of which are considered to be holders of judicial office for the purposes of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.