
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order (Northern Ireland) 2017 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2017.
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 Communities on 14th March 2017
(L.S.)Andrew Hamilton
A senior officer of the Department for Communities

SCHEDULE
Article 2


Tax Year Percentage
1978 - 1979 794.1
1979 - 1980 689.2
1980 - 1981 559.3
1981 - 1982 452.2
1982 - 1983 401.5
1983 - 1984 365.7
1984 - 1985 331.2
1985 - 1986 304.5
1986 - 1987 271.4
1987 - 1988 245.8
1988 - 1989 218.1
1989 - 1990 187.1
1990 - 1991 167.6
1991 - 1992 143.0
1992 - 1993 128.2
1993 - 1994 117.3
1994 - 1995 110.8
1995 - 1996 101.9
1996 - 1997 96.4
1997 - 1998 87.1
1998 - 1999 78.8
1999 - 2000 71.6
2000 - 2001 61.5
2001 - 2002 55.3
2002 - 2003 48.9
2003 - 2004 43.7
2004 - 2005 38.4
2005 - 2006 33.0
2006 - 2007 28.6
2007 - 2008 23.5
2008 - 2009 18.6
2009 - 2010 15.0
2010 - 2011 13.6
2011 - 2012 11.1
2012 - 2013 9.1
2013 - 2014 7.2
2014 - 2015 6.2
2015 - 2016 4.7
2016 - 2017 2.6