Northern Ireland Statutory Rule SI 2015/120 United Kingdom

The Health and Social Care Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

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s.032 Contributions by employing authorities Regulated
  • Pay pension contributions at 23.2% of pensionable earnings by the 19th of the following monthEmployer
s.047 Payment of buy-out contributions Regulated
  • Pay buy-out contributions on time and continue monthly paymentsEmployee
s.149 OOH provider Regulated
  • Notify the Department of insolvency events and give notice before leaving the pension schemeEmployer
151 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Citation and commencement
s.002 Establishment of the Health and Social Care Pension Scheme 2015
s.002 Members who do not fall within any of the cases in paragraph 2
s.003 Scheme Manager
s.004 Pension Board
s.005 Scheme Advisory Board
s.006 Appointment of scheme actuary
s.007 Actuarial valuation
s.008 Employer cost cap
s.009 Cost of scheme exceeds margins
s.010 Procedure for agreeing steps to achieve target cost
s.011 No agreement reached
s.012 Approval mechanism
s.013 Target cost
s.014 Administrative matters
s.015 Joining and leaving the scheme
s.016 Re-joining the scheme
s.017 Automatic enrolment legislation
s.018 Membership
s.019 Restrictions on membership
s.020 Pensionable service
s.021 Absence from work
s.022 Qualifying service
s.023 Effect of break in pensionable service
s.024 Establishment of pension accounts
s.025 Closure of pension accounts on transfer out or repayment of balance of contributions
s.026 Calculation of amount of accrued pension
s.027 Pensionable earnings
s.027 Regulation 27A Pensionable earnings: scheme years 2015/16 to 2023/24
s.028 Pensionable earnings: break in service
s.029 Pensionable earnings: more than one employment
s.030 Members' contributions: employees
s.031 Members' contributions: practitioners and non-GP providers
s.033 Employing authority contributions: interests of efficiency
s.034 Employing authority contributions: redundancy
s.035 Interest and administration charges: late paid contributions
s.036 Member contributions: records and estimates
s.037 Members contributions: supplementary: medical practitioners and non-GP providers
s.038 Members' contributions: supplementary: dental practitioners
s.039 Eligibility for refund
s.040 Amount of refund
s.041 Effect of refund
s.042 Eligibility to make buy-out election
s.043 Making and varying a buy-out election
s.044 Accepting a buy-out election
s.045 Overall limit on extra pension
s.046 Determination of contributions payable
s.048 Suspension of buy-out: hardship
s.049 Revoking a buy-out election
s.050 Election to allocate pension
s.051 Amount of allocation
s.052 Procedure for election under regulation 50
s.053 Effect of allocation
s.054 Election to pay contributions for additional pension
s.055 Annual rate of additional (self only) pension
s.056 Lump sum or periodic payments
s.057 Making an additional pension election
s.058 Accepting an additional pension election
s.059 Determination of contribution payable
s.060 Overall limit on extra pension
s.061 Lump sum contributions: payment of contributions and credit of additional pension
s.062 Repayment of lump sum contribution
s.063 Periodic contributions
s.064 Retirement pension (other than ill-health pension) becomes payable before the end of the contributions payment period
s.065 Revoking an additional pension election (periodic payments)
s.066 Revocation of election by scheme manager (lump sum)
s.067 Effect of being absent or leaving and rejoining scheme during contributions payment period
s.068 Death in service before end of contributions payment period
s.069 Ill-health pension becomes payable before end of contributions payment period
s.070 Effect of part payment of contributions
s.071 Qualifying for retirement benefits
s.072 Entitlement to age retirement pension
s.073 Annual rate of age retirement pension
s.074 Late payment of pension with actuarial increase
s.075 Pension credit member
s.076 Conversion of part of pension into lump sum
s.077 Entitlement day
s.078 Early retirement
s.079 Entitlement day
s.080 Premature retirement in the interests of efficiency
s.081 Premature retirement on grounds of redundancy
s.082 Premature retirement entitlement day
s.083 Election for partial retirement (members over normal retirement age)
s.084 Effect of election
s.085 Terms of employment improve after election
s.086 Member becomes subject to reduction following abatement
s.087 Payment of pension after abatement
s.088 Application of regulations 83 to 87: concurrent employments
s.089 Entitlement to ill-health pension
s.090 Member's incapacity
s.091 Annual rate of ill-health pension
s.092 Re-assessment of entitlement
s.093 Early retirement on ill-health (deferred members)
s.094 Effect of re-employment on Tier 2 IHP
s.095 Renewed entitlement to Tier 2 IHP
s.096 Re-employed Tier 1 IHP members
s.097 Dual capacity membership: pension benefits
s.098 Deferred pension becomes payable during HSC re-employment following transfer of undertaking
s.099 Retirement benefits for members with more than one employment
s.100 Application of Chapter
s.101 Information
s.102 Reduction of pension
s.103 Relevant income and enhancement amount
s.104 Previous earnings: general
s.105 Previous earnings: continuing and concurrent employments
s.106 Multiple pensions
s.107 Adjustment of reductions
s.108 Option for members in serious ill health to exchange pension for lump sum
s.109 Guaranteed minimum pension etc
s.110 Reduction in pension debit member's benefits
s.111 Lump sum on death
s.112 Surviving adult dependant pension
s.113 Surviving scheme partner
s.114 Amount of pension: survivor of active member
s.115 Amount of pension: survivor of pensioner member
s.116 Amount of pension: deferred members
s.117 Recent leavers
s.118 Re-employed pensioners: adult survivor pensions in initial period
s.119 Polygamous marriage
s.120 Surviving child's pension
s.121 Eligible child
s.122 Amount of child pension: deceased active member
s.123 Amount of child pension: deceased pensioner member
s.124 Amount of child pension: deceased deferred member
s.125 Amount of child pension: recent leavers
s.126 Power to increase pension for children not maintained by surviving parent etc.
s.127 Amount of child pension: re-employed pensioners
s.128 Provisional awards of eligible child's pensions: later adjustments
s.129 Suspension and recovery of pensions paid under this Part
s.130 Application of Part
s.131 Interpretation of Part
s.132 Application of Chapter
s.133 Right to transfer value payment
s.134 Application for statement of entitlement
s.135 Application for transfer value payment
s.136 Transfer value payments: time limits
s.137 How transfer value payments may be applied
s.138 Calculating amounts of transfer value or club transfer value
s.139 Effect of transfer-out
s.140 Right to apply for acceptance transfer value payment
s.141 Application procedure
s.142 Acceptance of transfer value payment
s.143 Calculation of increase to pensionable earnings
s.144 Transfer from the 1995 or 2008 Section
s.145 Transfers from corresponding 1995 and 2008 schemes
s.146 Bulk transfers out
s.147 Bulk transfers in
s.148 EU and overseas transfers
s.150 Medical Practitioner
s.151 Guarantees, bonds and indemnities
s.152 Definitions
Schedules

Schedules

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s.sch003 Claims for benefits Regulated
  • Provide evidence and information for pension benefit claimsEmployer
s.sch010 Medical practitioners not members of a practice Regulated
  • Provide annual certificate of pensionable earnings to the DepartmentSelf-Employed Person
s.sch010 Dentists Regulated
  • Provide certificate of pensionable earnings to the Department annuallySelf-Employed Person
s.sch010 Dentists Regulated
  • Pay pension contributions to the employing authority by the 7th of the following monthSelf-Employed Person
107 other schedules
s.sch001 Composition of the Pension Board
s.sch001 Terms of office of members
s.sch001 Disqualification from appointment as a member
s.sch001 Appointment, term of office and cessation of office of the chair
s.sch001 Voting and quorum
s.sch001 Conflicts of interest
s.sch001 Information
s.sch002 Composition of the Scheme Advisory Board
s.sch002 Disqualification from appointment as a member
s.sch002 Appointment, term of office and cessation of office of the chair
s.sch002 Quorum of the Board
s.sch002 Conflicts of interest
s.sch003 Scheme accounts and actuarial valuations
s.sch003 Prohibition on assignment or charging of benefits
s.sch003 Offset of benefits
s.sch003 Forfeiture of rights to benefits
s.sch003 Bankruptcy of person entitled to benefits
s.sch003 Determination of questions
s.sch003 Determinations by medical practitioners
s.sch003 Deduction of tax
s.sch003 Prohibition on unauthorised payments
s.sch003 Scheme administrator
s.sch003 Scheme information
s.sch003 Benefit information statements
s.sch003 Provision of information: continuing entitlement to benefits
s.sch003 Trivial commutation lump sum
s.sch003 Beneficiaries who are incapable of looking after their affairs
s.sch003 Power to extend time limits
s.sch003 Interest on late payment of benefits and refunds of member contributions
s.sch004 Opting out of the scheme
s.sch004 Re-joining the scheme
s.sch005 The following are HSC organisations for the purposes of these...
s.sch005 The Department may agree to treat any other body which...
s.sch005 The Department may agree to treat a GP Federation as...
s.sch005 In this Schedule statutory provision has the meaning given in...
s.sch005 The following are medical contractors for the purposes of these...
s.sch005 A GDS Provider is a dental provider for the purposes...
s.sch005 The following are medical practitioners for the purposes of these...
s.sch005 The following are dental practitioners for the purposes of these...
s.sch005 A determination employer is a person who is the employer...
s.sch006 (1) The categories or descriptions of persons to whom the...
s.sch007 Interpretation
s.sch007 Meaning of “conversion amount”
s.sch007 Establishment of active members account
s.sch007 Receipt of club transfer values
s.sch007 Amount of pension for a scheme year
s.sch007 Account to specify opening balance and index adjustment
s.sch007 Actuarial reduction buy-out
s.sch007 Establishment of deferred member's account
s.sch007 Account to specify amount of accrued earned pension and leaver index adjustment
s.sch007 Deferred member's account closed after break not exceeding 5 years
s.sch007 Deferred member's account remains open after a break in service of more than 5 years
s.sch007 Pensionable service
s.sch007 Pension accounts for active or deferred members who become pensioner members
s.sch007 Pension accounts for partial retirement members
s.sch007 Establishment of additional pension account
s.sch007 Account to specify amount of additional pension
s.sch007 Account to specify opening balance and AP index adjustment
s.sch007 Partial retirement pension abated to zero
s.sch007 Pension credit member's pension account
s.sch007 Separate account for each capacity of membership
s.sch007 Calculation of amount of accrued pension for purposes of full retirement
s.sch007 Calculation of amount of accrued pension for purpose of partial retirement
s.sch007 Meaning of “leaver index adjustment”
s.sch007 Calculation of amount of accrued pension for purposes of deferment
s.sch007 Meaning of “leaver AP index adjustment”
s.sch007 Meaning of “full retirement earned pension”
s.sch007 Meaning of “full retirement additional pension”
s.sch007 Meaning of “partial retirement earned pension”
s.sch007 Meaning of “partial retirement additional pension”
s.sch007 Meaning of “actuarial reduction”
s.sch008 Interpretation
s.sch008 Medical practitioner
s.sch008 Dental practitioner
s.sch008 Allocation of practice income
s.sch008 Partners' HSC employment earnings
s.sch008 Paragraph 4 and 5 election and calculation
s.sch008 Locum practitioner
s.sch009 Introduction
s.sch009 Continuous employment spanning two scheme years
s.sch009 Members who do not fall within any of the cases in paragraph 2
s.sch009 Change to employment or rate of pensionable earnings or allowances
s.sch009 Small payments: changed circumstances
s.sch009 Payments for unsocial hours
s.sch010 Medical practitioners and non-GP providers
s.sch010 Recovery of unpaid contributions
s.sch010 Information to be provided to scheme manager
s.sch010 Failure of member to comply with this Schedule
s.sch010 Certificates, notices and statements
s.sch010 Medical practitioners and non-GP providers
s.sch010 Payment of contributions to Department
s.sch011 Annual rate of age retirement pension
s.sch011 Late payment of pension with actuarial increase
s.sch011 Conversion of part of pension
s.sch011 Member declaration
s.sch011 Protection of guaranteed minimum pension
s.sch011 Calculation of amount of early retirement pension
s.sch011 Calculation of amount of premature retirement pension
s.sch012 Interpretation
s.sch012 Death of active member
s.sch012 Death of deferred member
s.sch012 Death of pensioner member
s.sch012 Death of recent leaver
s.sch012 Death of re-employed pensioner
s.sch012 Death of partial retirement pensioner
s.sch012 Death of pension credit member
s.sch012 Payment of lump sums or pensions on death

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