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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/161</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015</dc:title><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">PUBLIC SERVICE PENSIONS</dc:subject><dc:modified>2026-06-08</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2024-05-24</dct:valid>
					<dc:description>Part 2 of these Regulations establishes a scheme for the payment of pensions and other benefits to members of the judiciary. The scheme so established is a career average revalued earnings scheme.</dc:description>
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          <Strong>PART 12</Strong>
        </Number><Title>Supplementary</Title><Chapter DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/part/12/chapter/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/part/12/chapter/5" NumberOfProvisions="8" RestrictStartDate="2015-02-18" id="part-12-chapter-5"><Number>CHAPTER 5</Number><Title>General</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2015-02-18"><Title>Calculation of periods of membership and service</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/161" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/161" id="section-161"><Pnumber>161</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/161/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/161/1" id="section-161-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>For the purposes of this scheme, periods of membership and service are to be expressed in the first instance in whole years, and days and fractions of a day, and the initial aggregation of periods that require to be aggregated is done in the first instance by reference to periods so expressed.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para><P1para><Text>This is subject to paragraph (3).</Text><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/161/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/161/2" id="section-161-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>If, when all periods of membership or service that require to be aggregated have been aggregated, there is any excess part day over the number of whole days, that excess is rounded up to a full day. This is subject to paragraph (3).</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/161/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/161/3" id="section-161-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>If membership or service is referred to in these Regulations as membership or service in years—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/161/3/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/161/3/a" id="section-161-3-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the days referred to in paragraph (1); and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/161/3/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/161/3/b" id="section-161-3-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the full days referred to in paragraph (2),</Text></P3para></P3><Text>are converted into years by dividing the number of days in excess of the period of whole years by 365, and using the result to 4 decimal places.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/161/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/161/4" id="section-161-4"><Pnumber>4</Pnumber><P2para><Text>If a period of membership or service is less than one year, this regulation applies as if the words  “whole years, and” were omitted from paragraph (1) and the words  “in excess of the period of whole years” were omitted from paragraph (3).</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Chapter></Part></Body></Secondary></Legislation>