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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 1st July 2025.
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The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 are amended as follows.
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In regulation 134 (Rate of member contributions)—
(a) for paragraph (4), substitute—“
(4) In this regulation—
(a) for the purpose of calculating the rate of member contributions, pensionable earnings are determined in relation to each pay period and are the sum of;
(i) the member’s basic amount of pensionable salary; and
(ii) the member’s permanent pensionable allowances; and
(iii) the member’s fluctuating pensionable earnings;
(b) the member contributions rate is the relevant percentage rate set out in the relevant table in this regulation, which applies to a member’s annualised rate of pensionable earnings calculated in relation to each payment of a member’s pensionable earnings;
(c) for the purpose of this regulation, the total pensionable earnings in relation to a payment excludes any arrears or retrospective element when determining the member’s annualised rate of pensionable earnings;
(d) the Department must, having considered the advice of the scheme actuary, determine and publish the annualised rate of pensionable earnings bands in the table set out in this regulation in respect of each subsequent scheme year;
(e) the Department must make amending regulations to change the contribution percentage rates in the table set out in this regulation in respect of any subsequent scheme year.”;
(b) after regulation 134(8) for the table headed “Scheme Year 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020” substitute—“

Annualised rate of pensionable earnings Member contributions rate effective from 1st July 2025 to 31st August 2025
 
Up to but not including £27,092.00 4.65%
£27,092.00 to but not including £61,646.00 5.65%
£61,646.00 to but not including £165,794.00 7.55%
£165,794.00 and above 8.25%

Annualised rate of pensionable earnings Member contributions rate effective from 1st September 2025
 
Up to but not including £28,717.00 4.65%
£28,717.00 to but not including £65,344.00 5.65%
£65,344.00 to but not including £175,741.00 7.55%
£175,741.00 and above 8.25%”
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 13th June 2025.
(L.S.)Patrick Neeson
A senior officer of the
Department of Finance
