The Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 2) (“the 2014 Act”) makes provision, and confers powers to make further provision (in the form of “scheme regulations” as defined in section 1 of the 2014 Act), about the establishment of public service pension schemes. The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015 No. 113) (“the 2015 Regulations”) are the scheme regulations establishing the successor police pension scheme (“the reformed scheme”) to the schemes established by the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1988 (S.R. 1988 No. 374) and the Police Pension (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2009 (S.R. 2009 No. 79) (“the legacy schemes”). The 2015 Regulations provided for transitional protection for certain cohorts of legacy scheme members. Transitional protection of this sort was subsequently found to unlawfully discriminate between legacy scheme members on the basis of age.
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