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Paragraph 2 Elections under regulation E12 of the 1992 regulationsF1I1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Where any woman—

(a)

duly elected under regulation E12(1)(b) or (2)(b) of the 1992 regulations (election by wife of dependant and permanently incapacitated husband), or

(b)

was a person to whom regulation E12(1)(a) of those regulations (unmarried woman with potentially eligible child) applied immediately before she ceased to be a pensionable employee (within the meaning of those regulations),

then, subject to sub-paragraph (2), the provisions of Part D relating to the amount of the retirement pension and the retirement grant, Parts F and G and paragraph 3 of Schedule BI apply in relation to her as if she were a man, and where sub-paragraph (a) applies, as if the husband in relation to whom the election was made were a woman.

(2)

Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply if—

(a)

the woman has given notice under paragraph 1(1) that she wishes to count any of her membership before 1st April 1972 for the purposes of calculating a widower’s long-term pension, or

(b)

if she ceases to be married to the husband in respect of whom the election under regulation E12(1) or (2)(b) of the 1992 regulations was made.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

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)

Commencement

I1

Sch. F1 para. 2 in operation at 1.8.2000, see reg. A1(1)