Pensions increase

6 Employers' contributions towards cost of pensions increase for teachers and persons engaged in health care, etc.
1 In Article 11 of the Superannuation Order (teachers), after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“3A Notwithstanding anything in the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971, regulations under this Article may provide that the cost of increases under that Act of such of the pensions, allowances or gratuities payable under the regulations as may be prescribed by the regulations, or such part of those increases as may be so prescribed, shall be defrayed—
(a) by contributions from employers of teachers or from such other persons or classes of person (apart from teachers) as the Department of Education may consider appropriate and may specify in the regulations; or
(b) by contributions from such of those employers or other persons as may be so speciﬁed;
and any provisions of the said Act of 1971, or of regulations made under section 5 thereof, relating to liability for the cost of increases under that Act of pensions, allowances or gratuities payable under the regulations shall have eﬀect subject to the provisions of any regulations made by virtue of this paragraph and for the time being in force.”

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2 In Article 12 of that Order (persons engaged in health care, etc.), in paragraph (1), after the words as may be so prescribed there shall be inserted the words “ (in this Article referred to as health staﬀ ) ” and after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“3A Notwithstanding anything in the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971, regulations under this Article may provide that the cost of increases under that Act of such of the pensions, allowances or gratuities payable under the regulations as may be prescribed by the regulations, or such part of those increases as may be so prescribed, shall be defrayed—
(a) by contributions from employers of health staﬀ or from such other persons or classes of person (apart from health staﬀ) as the Department of Health and Social Services may consider appropriate and may specify in the regulations; or
(b) by contributions from such of those employers or other persons as may be so speciﬁed;
and any provisions of the said Act of 1971, or of regulations made under section 5 thereof, relating to liability for the cost of increases under that Act of pensions, allowances or gratuities payable under the regulations shall have eﬀect subject to the provisions of any regulations made by virtue of this paragraph and for the time being in force.”

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Words in Order substituted (1.4.2009) by Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1), ss. 32, 34(3), Sch. 6 para. 1(1)(b) (with Sch. 6 para. 1(3)); S.R. 2009/114, art. 2