{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-84.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/215",
  "legislation_title": "The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/84",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Calculation of amount of restitution payment",
  "text": "(1) The Board shall, in accordance with paragraph (2), calculate the restitution payment that would need to be made to it in respect of a person to whom article 83 applies to create or restore his position to what it would have been if he had not opted-out or, where relevant, transferred-out.\n(2) The restitution payment is an amount equal to the sum of—\n(a) the capitalised value at the material date, determined in accordance with the methods and assumptions, which would produce a service credit equal to his total period of opted-out service, including the capitalised value of any rights under the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and the Pensions (Increase) (Northern Ireland) Order 1974; and\n(b) in the case of a firefighter who also transferred out, the greater of—\n(i) any transfer value paid by the Board to the administrator of a personal pension scheme in respect of the firefighter’s transferred-out service under Chapter 2 of this Part, increased by interest calculated at a rate approved by the Scheme Actuary over the period from the date of payment of that transfer value to the assumed calculation date; and\n(ii) the cash equivalent transfer value that would be payable by the Board in respect of that transferred-out service if it were to pay a cash equivalent transfer value in respect of that service determined in accordance with the methods and assumptions applicable immediately after the assumed calculation date.\n(3) In this article—\n“assumed calculation date” means the date on which it is assumed, for the purpose of calculating a restitution payment, that a transfer value will be paid to the Board; and\n“material date” means the date on which the Board receives a notice under article 83.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme art. 84 in operation at 30.3.2007 (with effect in accordance with art. 2(1)), see art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.35 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1974/1267 (N.I. 2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/215/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:07.019942+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."
}