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Paragraph 84CA Converting membership from standard membership to special membership - special pensioner members who were previously special deferred membersF1F2

(1)

This article applies to a person to whom article 84B applies and who is a special pensioner member who was previously a special deferred member.

(2)

Where the member makes an election under article 84B(5), the amount payable under that article must be—

(a)

calculated in accordance with guidance provided by the Scheme Actuary, and

(b)

paid by lump sum payment.

(3)

When the payment required by article 84B(5) has been paid, and subject to article 84B(7)—

(a)

the member’s pensionable service as a standard member must be treated as special pensionable service;

(b)

the member must continue to receive his ordinary or ill-health pension in respect of his pensionable service as a standard member, and

(c)

the member must, in addition, receive his special member’s ordinary pension or ill-health pension in respect of his special pensionable service as a special member.

(4)

The special member’s ordinary pension or ill-health pension in respect of his special pensionable service payable under this article must be reduced in accordance with tables produced by the Scheme Actuary, so that the total amount of pension that the member receives in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3)(b) and (c) does not exceed the amount he would have received as a special member if—

(a)

he had not been an ordinary member of the Scheme, and

(b)

all of his service from the start of the mandatory special period to the date that the member’s special member’s ordinary pension or ill-health pension, as the case may be, becomes payable and which is eligible to be treated as special pensionable service, was treated as special pensionable service.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Pt. 12 Ch. 5 added (retrospective and with effect in accordance with art. 1(3)(d) of the amending Rule) by The New Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/9), art. 1(3)(d), Sch. para. 10(10)

F2

Annex Scheme arts. 84CA, 84CB inserted (1.9.2026) by The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 (S.R. 2026/150), art. 1, Sch. para. 5(4)