Adoption Authority of Ireland Superannuation Scheme 2017.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 157/2017
• Year: 2017

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 21st April, 2017.

The Adoption Authority of Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 123 of the Adoption Act 2010 (No. 21 of 2010), with the approval of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, hereby makes the following scheme:

1. (1) This Scheme may be cited as the Adoption Authority of Ireland Superannuation Scheme 2017.

(2) This Scheme comes into operation 3 April 2017.

2. The Rules set out in the Schedule to the Rules for Pre-existing Public Service Pension Scheme Members Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 582 of 2014 ) are adopted as a scheme for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of members of the staff, including the Chief Executive Officer, of the Adoption Authority of Ireland, subject to the modifications set out in Article 3.

3. The modifications referred to in Article 2 are as follows:

(a) the addition of the following definitions to Article 4 of the Schedule:

“Civil Service” means the Civil Service of the Government and the Civil Service of the State;

“redeployed person” means a person who redeployed to the Adoption Authority of Ireland from another public service body and who, immediately prior to such redeployment, was subject to pension terms which correspond to those applicable to non-established State employees in the Civil Service;

(b) the substitution of the following for Article 29(3):

“(3) In the case where the former member dies while in receipt of a pension, other than a pension based on Article 18 (Cost Neutral Early Retirement), a preserved pension or a pension awarded on medical grounds, the reference pension is—

(a) in relation to a person other than a person referred to in paragraph (b), the amount of such pension, or

(b) in relation to a person who was fully insured other than a redeployed person, the pension which would have been granted to him or her if it had been calculated by reference to net pensionable remuneration (survivor’s benefits) at the date of his or her retirement, as adjusted by reference to Article 47.”;

(c) the substitution of the following for Article 29(4):

“(4) In the case where the former member dies following retirement on medical grounds, the reference pension is the pension which would have been granted to him or her if it fell to be calculated by reference to—

(a) where the deceased member was not fully insured, his or her pensionable remuneration at date of retirement as adjusted by reference to Article 47, and the pensionable service which the deceased member would have had if he or she had served to age 65, or, if earlier, to the date on which his or her contract of employment would expire, or

(b) where the deceased member was fully insured and was not a redeployed person, his or her net pensionable remuneration (survivor’s benefits) at the date of retirement as adjusted by reference to Article 47 during the period between retirement and death and the pensionable service which the deceased member would have had if he or she had served to age 65 or, if earlier, to the date on which his or her employment contract would expire, or

(c) where the deceased member was a redeployed person, the formula contained in Article...