
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2016.
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 25th February 2016
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

SCHEDULE
Article 2


Tax Year Percentage
1978 - 1979 771.5
1979 - 1980 669.2
1980 - 1981 542.6
1981 - 1982 438.2
1982 - 1983 388.8
1983 - 1984 353.9
1984 - 1985 320.2
1985 - 1986 294.2
1986 - 1987 262.0
1987 - 1988 237.1
1988 - 1989 210.1
1989 - 1990 179.9
1990 - 1991 160.8
1991 - 1992 136.9
1992 - 1993 122.4
1993 - 1994 111.8
1994 - 1995 105.5
1995 - 1996 96.8
1996 - 1997 91.4
1997 - 1998 82.3
1998 - 1999 74.3
1999 - 2000 67.3
2000 - 2001 57.4
2001 - 2002 51.3
2002 - 2003 45.1
2003 - 2004 40.0
2004 - 2005 34.9
2005 - 2006 29.6
2006 - 2007 25.3
2007 - 2008 20.4
2008 - 2009 15.5
2009 - 2010 12.1
2010 - 2011 10.7
2011 - 2012 8.3
2012 - 2013 6.3
2013 - 2014 4.5
2014 - 2015 3.5
2015 - 2016 2.0