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PENSIONS (INCREASE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 9

Gratuities and lump sums.

9.(1) References in this Act to a pension shall not apply to any payment made
by way only of a return of contributions, with or without interest; but,
subject to that, this Act shall apply in relation to any allowance, benefit or
compensation whether it takes the form of periodical payments or of a gratuity
or other lump sum.

(2) In relation to a lump sum

(a)references to the time when a pension begins shall apply in accordance with
section 8(2) as in the case of a pension taking the form of periodical
payments; and

(b)references to increasing a pension in respect of a period beginning at any
time shall have effect as references to increasing any sum becoming payable at
or after that time on account of the lump sum or any instalment of it; and

(c)references to the rate of a pension shall have effect as references to the
amount of the lump sum or an instalment of it, as the case may require.

Subs.(3)(4)(4A) rep. by 1975 NI 15 art.74(2) sch.6

(5) For purposes of section 4 any addition to a lump sum which would have
resulted from treating the length of the previous service as being increased
by the length of the further service in accordance with section 4(1)(b) shall
be supposed not to have become payable until the day following that on which
the further service in fact terminated.

(6) Nothing in section 6 shall apply to any lump sum.

Pensions under approved pension schemes.

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