# Teachers' Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998, Paragraph 2

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) Where—
(a) a provision of these Regulations (“the new provision”) re-enacts with any modification a provision revoked by these Regulations (“the former provision”); and
(b) the effect of the general rule is that a person to whom a protected benefit was being paid or might become payable is placed in a worse position than he would have been in if the former provision had continued to have effect,
he may by giving written notice to the Department within 3 months after 2nd November 1998 elect that the new provision is to apply in relation to the benefit as if it had re-enacted the former provision without modification.
(2) A protected benefit is one paid, or capable of becoming payable, to or in respect of a person who before 2nd November 1998 ceased to be in pensionable employment or died.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/333/schedule/13/part/III/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/schedule-13/part-III/paragraph-2
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