
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2013.
2 
The earnings factors for the tax years specified in the first column of the Schedule in so far as they are relevant—
(a) to the calculation—
(i) of the additional pension in the rate of any long-term benefit, or
(ii) of any guaranteed minimum pension, or
(b) to any other calculation required under Part III of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 (including that Part as modified by or under any other enactment),are directed to be increased for those tax years by the percentage of their amount shown opposite those tax years in the second column of the Schedule.
3 
Where any earnings factor relevant to the calculation specified in Article 2(a)(i), as increased in accordance with this Order, would not but for this Article be expressed as a whole number of pounds, it shall be so expressed by the rounding down of any fraction of a pound less than one half and the rounding up of any other fraction of a pound.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 12th March 2013
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

SCHEDULE
Article 2


Tax Year Percentage
1978 - 1979 734.2
1979 - 1980 636.3
1980 - 1981 515.1
1981 - 1982 415.2
1982 - 1983 367.9
1983 - 1984 334.5
1984 - 1985 302.3
1985 - 1986 277.4
1986 - 1987 246.5
1987 - 1988 222.7
1988 - 1989 196.8
1989 - 1990 167.9
1990 - 1991 149.7
1991 - 1992 126.8
1992 - 1993 112.9
1993 - 1994 102.8
1994 - 1995 96.7
1995 - 1996 88.4
1996 - 1997 83.3
1997 - 1998 74.5
1998 - 1999 66.9
1999 - 2000 60.1
2000 - 2001 50.7
2001 - 2002 44.9
2002 - 2003 38.9
2003 - 2004 34.1
2004 - 2005 29.2
2005 - 2006 24.1
2006 - 2007 20.0
2007 - 2008 15.3
2008 - 2009 10.6
2009 - 2010 7.3
2010 - 2011 6.0
2011 – 2012 3.6
2012 - 2013 1.8