# Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998, Regulation E14: Abatement of retirement pension during further employment

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) This regulation applies while a person who has become entitled to payment of a teacher’s pension is employed—
(a) in pensionable employment, comparable service, or in employment which would have been pensionable employment but for—
(i) his having made an election under regulation B4;
(ii) his having attained the age of compulsory retirement; or
(iii) regulation B3(3);
(b) in part-time employment in a capacity described in Part I of Schedule 2.
(2) If the person is concurrently both in employment falling within paragraph (1)(a) and in employment falling within paragraph (1)(b) this regulation applies only in respect of the former.
(3) Where this regulation applies the annual rate of the pension is reduced—
(a) if A equals or exceeds
(C+D-E) , to zero; and
(b) in any other case, by the amount (if any) which is necessary to secure that
(A+B) does not exceed
(C+D-E), where—
A is the initial annual rate of the person’s salary in the employment;
B is the reduced annual rate of the pension as increased under the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971;
C is, or where his previous pensionable employment was part-time is the full-time equivalent of, the highest annual rate of contributable salary that was payable to him during the 3 years ending immediately before he became entitled to payment of the pension, or, if applicable, the highest annual rate of contributable salary that was payable to him during the 3 years ending immediately before he ceased to be employed in any pensionable employment entered into by him after he became entitled to payment of the pension, whichever is the greater;
D is the amount (if any) by which, immediately before the first day of the employment, C would have been increased if it had been the annual rate of an official pension within the meaning of the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971, beginning, and first qualifying for increases under that Act, on the same date as the pension; and
E is any part of the pension allocated under regulation E11.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/333/regulation/E14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-E14
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