Regulation 2 Amendments to the Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 are amended as follows.

After paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 insert—

“Protection of increases in guaranteed minimum pensions after abolition of contracting-out

7A.

(1)

Chapter 3 of Part 4 of the 1993 Act (protection for early leavers: protection of increases in guaranteed minimum pensions (“anti-franking”)) is modified as follows.

(2)

In the application of that Chapter to P as a member of the old scheme—

(a)

in section 83(1)(a)(i) (general protection principle), the reference to the time when P ceases to be in pensionable service under a scheme that was, before the second abolition date, a salary-related contracted-out scheme is to be taken as a reference to the time when P ceases to be in pensionable service in relation to this scheme; and

(b)

subsequent references to “the cessation date” are to be construed accordingly.”.