
2022 No. 204
Public Service Pensions
The Public Service Pensions (Employer Cost Cap and Specified Restricted Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022
Made 25th August 2022
Coming into operation 16th September 2022
The Department of Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 12(5)(a) and 12A(3)(b) of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014, make the following Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Public Service Pensions (Employer Cost Cap and Specified Restricted Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and come into operation on 16th September 2022.
Interpretation
2 
In these Regulations, the “New Judicial Pension Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2015” means the career average revalued earnings scheme established as a defined benefits scheme for the payment of pensions and other benefits to or in respect of the judiciary by the Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015.
Amendment of the Public Service Pensions (Employer Cost Cap) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
3 

(1) The Public Service Pensions (Employer Cost Cap) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3 (specified margins)—
(a) in paragraph (a), for “2” substitute “3”, and
(b) in paragraph (b), for “2” substitute “3”.
Specified restricted scheme
4 
For the purposes of section 12A of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (restricted schemes), the New Judicial Pension Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2015 is a specified restricted scheme.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 25th August 2022.
(L.S.)John Crosby
A senior officer of the
Department of Finance
