Section 78 Supplementary regulations.

Northern Ireland

(1)

Regulations may provide that a scheme is not to be treated as conforming with the preservation requirements unless it contains express rules to the effect (but not necessarily in the words) of any specified provision contained in sections 67 to F172.

(2)

Regulations may make provision as to the circumstances in which, for the purposes of sections 66 to 72—

(a)

a period of a person’s service in two or more different employments is to be treated as a period of service in one or more of those employments; or

(b)

a person’s service in any employment is to be treated as terminated or not terminated.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in s. 78 substituted (6.4.1997) by S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22), art. 119, Sch. 1 para. 15 (with art. 118(5)(6)); S.R. 1997/192, art. 2(b)

Notes on Chapter I

Modifications

C1: Pt. 4 Ch. 1 modified (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/166), regs. 1, 7(1)
C2: Pt. 4 Ch. 1 modified (1.4.2015) by The Police Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/156), regs. 1(2), 7(1)
C3: Pt. 4 Ch. 1 modified (1.4.2015) by The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/76), reg. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 5(1)
C4: Pt. 4 Ch. 1 modified (1.4.2015) by The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/81), regs. 1(1), 7(1)
C5: Pt. 4 Ch. 1 modified (1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/170), regs. 1, 7(1)
C6: Pt. 4 Ch. 1 modified (1.4.2015) by The Health Service Workers (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/167), regs. 1, 7(1)
C7: Pt. IV Ch. I: power to modify conferred (16.3.2022 for specified purposes, 6.4.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Pension Schemes Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 (c. 6), s. 44(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(6)(a); S.R. 2022/110, art. 2(a)(b)