The Church
of Ireland Pensions Board, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section
16 of Chapter XIV of the Constitution (hereinafter referred to as Chapter XIV)
and of all other powers enabling it on that behalf, hereby makes the following
Regulations:-
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions (Part-time Deployment in the Stipendiary Ministry) Regulations 2000 and shall come into operation on 1 June 2000.
(2) In these Regulations any expression to which a meaning is assigned by the Constitution of the Church of Ireland shall have the same meaning as in the said Constitution.
(3) In these Regulations the term ‘session’ has the meaning assigned to it in the Regulations made by the Representative Church Body on 14 March 2000, hereinafter referred to as the RCB Regulations.
(4) In these Regulations the term ‘sessional rates’ means the sessional rates based on the Minimum Approved Stipend determined by the General Synod as set out in the RCB Regulations.
2. For the purposes of Section 42 (1) of Chapter XIV service while deployed part-time in the Stipendiary Ministry shall be calculated by taking the number of sessions completed annually as a percentage of a completed year of service, as shown in the Appendix to these Regulations.
3. (a) The
contribution to be made to the Fund under Section 34 of Chapter XIV in respect
of any member who is deployed part-time in the Stipendiary Ministry and whose remuneration is
determined by a Diocesan Council in accordance with the sessional rates shall
be calculated at the same percentage rate of that remuneration as the
contribution of a member in the full-time Stipendiary Ministry is to the
Minimum Approved Stipend.
(b) The contribution to the Fund in respect of such a member who is deployed part-time in the Stipendiary Ministry shall be paid to the Representative Church Body by the Diocesan Council concerned (which may recover the contribution, by deduction from the remuneration of the member concerned and by assessment on the parish/church in which that member is deployed, at the same percentage rate as that which applies in respect of a member in the full-time Stipendiary Ministry).
The Representative Church Body shall transfer to the credit of the Fund the amount so received from the Diocesan Council.
4. Solely for the purposes of eligibility to retire on grounds of ill-health under the provisions of Section 41 (b) of Chapter XIV, each calendar year during which a member is serving, whether part-time or full-time, in the Stipendiary Ministry shall be treated as if it were a year spent serving in the full-time Stipendiary Ministry.
5. For the purpose of Section 47 (1) of Chapter XIV the lump sum grant payable to the legal personal representatives of a member who has been deployed part-time in the Stipendiary Ministry shall be calculated in the following manner, that is to say:
(a) where such member has for a period of not less than 3 years held ecclesiastical office or served as a curate assistant in the Church of Ireland before being deployed on a part-time basis,
either: (i) the Minimum Approved Stipend of the office held by the member concerned on the date when the last period of full-time service ceased and before the last period of part-time service commenced, multiplied by 4;
or: (ii) the percentage Minimum Approved Stipend of the office held by the member fixed at the date of his death multiplied by 4;
whichever is the greater;
(b) where such member has for a period of not less than 3 years held ecclesiastical office or served as a curate assistant in a Church other than the Church of Ireland before being deployed on a part-time basis, the percentage Minimum Approved Stipend of the office held by the member fixed at the date of his death multiplied by 4.
6. For the purpose of Section 49 of Chapter XIV the amount of pension payable to the surviving spouse of a member who dies while deployed part-time in the Stipendiary Ministry or after retirement from the same shall be calculated at the appropriate percentage rate of the pension which the said member would have received in the circumstances set out in Section 49 of Chapter XIV (as adapted by Regulation 2 of these Regulations).
7. For the purpose of Section 54 of Chapter XIV the child dependency allowance payable, in trust for the child, to the surviving spouse of a member who dies while serving part-time in the Stipendiary Ministry shall be calculated on the basis of the pension payable to that surviving spouse under the provision of Section 49 of Chapter XIV (as adapted by Regulations 2 and 6 of these Regulations).
8. In respect of any matter not specifically covered by these regulations the provisions of Chapter XIV shall apply.
JLB Deane
Chairman
10 April 2000
As defined the number of sessions in a week is 21 (morning, afternoon and evening) (1,092 per annum). Ministers deployed part-time in the Stipendiary Ministry can work a maximum of 14 (728 per annum) and a minimum of 5 (260 per annum) sessions per week.
The range of sessions of 5 to 14 (inclusive) per week shall equate to months credit, on an annual basis, in the Clergy Pensions Fund as per the following table:
|
% of a year worked |
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|
5 sessions x 52 |
= |
260 1,092 |
= |
23.81% |
= |
credit of 3 months service |
|
6 sessions x 52 |
= |
312 1,092 |
= |
28.57% |
= |
credit of 4 months service |
|
7 sessions x 52 |
= |
364 1,092 |
= |
33.33% |
= |
credit of 4 months service |
|
8 sessions x 52 |
= |
416 1,092 |
= |
38.10% |
= |
credit of 5 months service |
|
9 sessions x 52 |
= |
468 1,092 |
= |
42.86% |
= |
credit of 5 months service |
|
10 sessions x 52 |
= |
520 1,092 |
= |
47.62% |
= |
credit of 6 months service |
|
11 sessions x 52 |
= |
572 1,092 |
= |
52.38% |
= |
credit of 6 months service |
|
12 sessions x 52 |
= |
624 1,092 |
= |
57.14% |
= |
credit of 7 months service |
|
13 sessions x 52 |
= |
676 1,092 |
= |
61.90% |
= |
credit of 7 months service |
|
14 sessions x 52 |
= |
728 1,092 |
= |
66.66% |
= |
credit of 8 months service |