
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Damages (Process for Setting Rate of Return) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 and come into operation on 1st July 2024.
2 
In paragraph 10(2)(a) of Schedule C1 to the Damages Act 1996 for “0.75 of a percentage point” substitute “1.25 percentage points”.
3 

(1) Average Weekly Earnings is prescribed as the published information for use instead of the retail prices index for the purposes of paragraph 9(2) of Schedule C1 to the Damages Act 1996.
(2) In paragraph (1), “Average Weekly Earnings” means the measure of short-term average earnings used to measure changes in earnings over time—
(a) published periodically by the Statistics Board under the title “Average weekly earnings in Great Britain”;
(b) based on that body’s Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey; and
(c) which relates to the whole of the economy of Great Britain.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Justice on 19th June 2024
Naomi Long
Minister of Justice
