Part 1 Police Pensions

Northern Ireland

1. 3Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
2. 4Interpretation
3. 5Police Pension Board: membership
4. 6Eligible Service
5. 7Periods of unpaid leave
6. 8Automatic re-enrolment
7. 9Pensionable earnings
8. 10Eligibility for payment of ill-health benefits
9. 11Meaning of deferred member
10. 12Decision of selected medical practitioner
11. 13Refusal to be medically examined or attend interviews
12. 14Referral of medical questions for purpose of regulation 80
13. 15Application of Chapter
14. 16Referral of medical questions for purpose of early payment of full retirement pension on grounds of permanent medical unfitness
15. 17Qualifying Service
16. 18Entitlement to full retirement pension (active members)
17. 19Entitlement to full retirement pension (deferred members)
18. 20Claim for payment of full retirement pension (active members)
19. 21Notice period for active members
20. 22Payment thresholds
21. 23Entitlement to payment of ill-health pension
22. 24Annual rate of ill-health pension under this scheme
23. 25Referral of medical question for purpose of reduction of benefits
24. 26Reduction of pension in case of default
25. 27Refusal to be medically examined
26. 28Decision of scheme manager void if appeal against decision of selected medical practitioner is successful
27. 29Review of lower tier ill-health pension
28. 30Review and cancellation of enhanced upper tier ill-health pension
29. 31Review and cancellation of full retirement pension which came into payment early on the grounds of permanent medical unfitness
30. 32Decision of scheme manager void if appeal against decision of selected medical practitioner is successful
31. 33Option to buy out early payment reduction
32. 34Death gratuity – estate
33. 35Rate of member’s contribution
34. 36Employer contributions
35. 37Commutation of small pensions
36. 38Interpretation and application
37. 39Forfeiture: offences committed by members
38. 40Forfeiture: offences committed by a member’s beneficiary
39. 41Reduction of benefits where annual allowance charge paid by scheme manager
40. 42Medical decisions: appeals and reconsideration
41. 43Transitional provisions