Single Public Service Pension Scheme (Purchase and Transfer of Retirement Benefits â Permanent Defence Force) Regulations 2020.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Single Public Service Pension Scheme (Purchase and Transfer of Retirement Benefits – Permanent Defence Force) Regulations 2020.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 April 2020.
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paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations—
“Act of 2012” means the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 (No. 37 of 2012);
“actual purchase” shall be construed in accordance with Regulation 4(3);
“normal retirement age”, in relation to a PDF Scheme member, means 50 years of age;
“PDF Scheme member” means a Scheme member to whom section 26(1)(b) of the Act of 2012 relates;
“Principal Regulations” means the Single Public Service Pension Scheme (Purchase and Transfer of Retirement Benefits) Regulations 2019 ( S.I. No. 252 of 2019 );
“purchase multiplier”, in relation to a PDF Scheme member, means the factor specified in column (2) of the Table to this Regulation opposite the total period in years specified in column (1) of that Table that the person concerned will have spent as a Scheme member were the person’s membership to continue to his or her normal retirement age (and any period that is not a whole year shall not be counted for the purposes of this definition);
“relevant Scheme member” means a PDF Scheme member in respect of whom, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the following requirements are complied with:
(a) the member has completed the vesting period, and
(b) the member would have spent not less than 9 years as a Scheme member by the time he or she has reached his or her normal retirement age;
(2) Paragraph (a) of the definition of “relevant Scheme member” in this Regulation does not apply in the case of a PDF Scheme member who is providing the consideration for the purchase of the referable amounts in accordance with Regulation 5(1) and as respects whom the completion of the vesting period before his or her normal retirement age is possible.
(3) Paragraph (b) of the definition of “relevant Scheme member” in this Regulation does not apply in the case of a PDF Scheme member who is providing the consideration for the purchase of the referable amounts in accordance with Regulation 5(1).
(4) A reference in these Regulations to—
(a) an agreement previously entered into by a relevant Scheme member under Regulation 4(1), or
(b) referable amounts previously purchased by a PDF Scheme member,
(i) as a reference to such an agreement, irrespective of whether the method that it provides for the provision of consideration for the purchase of referable amounts (the “method of purchase”) is actual purchase or that provided for in Regulation 5(1), or
(ii) as a reference to referable amounts that have been previously purchased by the member, irrespective of whether the method of purchase was actual purchase or that provided for in Regulation 5(1).
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paragraphs: (1) For the purpose of any provision of these Regulations that operates by reference to the period spent by a person as a Scheme member:
(a) periods of service given, otherwise than on a full-time basis, by the member shall be as reckonable as periods given on a full-time basis by a member;
(b) the full-time equivalent of the first-mentioned periods in subparagraph (a) is the period that shall be used for the foregoing purpose.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in paragraph (1) affects the construction of the following definitions, namely the definition of “E” in Regulation 7, the definition of “D” in Regulation 10, the definition of “E” in Regulation 12(3) and the definition of “D” in Regulation 12(5).
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paragraphs: (1) The Minister for Defence may enter into one or more agreements with a relevant Scheme member providing for the inclusion of certain money amounts as referable amounts, in respect of the pension or lump sum of the member, for the purposes of the calculation of benefits sections.
(2) Subject to paragraph (6), each such agreement shall provide for its duration to be of 12 months and only one such agreement shall be entered into in any period of 12 months.
(3) The provision made by such an agreement, for the foregoing inclusion of money amounts, shall be by way of purchase by the member of referable amounts in accordance with—
(a) paragraph (4), or
(b) paragraph (4) and Regulation 5,
(4) The rate - expressed as a certain amount of euro to provide—
(a) one euro of pension payable per annum from a certain age, or
(b) in the case of lump sum - one euro of lump sum payable at a certain age,