{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-D3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-D3/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/177",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "schedule/D3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Alternative additional periods",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph 4, where before entering the employment which he has ceased to hold the person had, on ceasing to hold a previous employment, become entitled to benefits—\n(a) under regulation D7(1) or regulation E2(1)(b)(i) of the 1992 regulations, or\n(b) under regulation 9(1)(a)(i) of the 1962 regulations, and regulation 18(1)(b)(i) of the 1981 regulations,\nthe additional period in relation to a person shall be a period calculated as mentioned in paragraph 2, but—\n(i) on the assumption that his relevant membership period includes his relevant membership period (or, as the case may be, the period of his relevant service) in relation to the previous employment, and\n(ii) with the deduction of the appropriate period.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(ii) “the appropriate period” means—\n(a) in the case mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a), the additional period which became reckonable in relation to the previous employment by virtue of regulation D7(2) and this Schedule or, as the case may be, regulation E3(9) of and Schedule 9 to the 1992 regulations, and\n(b) in the case mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b), if the person’s retirement pension in respect of a previous employment was calculated under the proviso to regulation 10(1) of the 1962 regulations before the amendment of those regulations by the Local Government (Superannuation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973—\n(i) the period by which his relevant service fell short of 20 years, or\n(ii) the period by which it would have been increased if he had continued in the previous employment until he reached the age of 65 years, as the case may be.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.4.2015) by The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/189), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 2 (with savings and transitional provisions in reg. 3, Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. D3 para. 3 in operation at 1.8.2000, see reg. A1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 242"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/177/schedule/D3/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:32.787353+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}