Fire Services Act 1951

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1951 c. 27


Fire Services Act, 1951

(14 & 15 Geo. 6) CHAPTER 27

An Act to amend sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of the Fire Services Act, 1947.

[10th May 1951]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Amendments of s. 26.

1 Amendments of s. 26.

(1) The powers conferred by section twenty-six of the Fire Services Act, 1947 (which enables the Secretary of State to make orders for bringing into operation a Firemen's Pension Scheme or for varying that Scheme) shall include power to make an order revoking any previous order under that section (whether made before or after the commencement of this Act) and bringing into operation a fresh scheme thereunder.

(2) Any reference in the said Act or this Act to the Firemen's Pension Scheme shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as including a reference to any fresh scheme made under the said section twenty-six as amended by this section.

(3) Subsection (2) of the said section twenty-six (which specifies matters for which provision may be made by the Firemen's Pension Scheme) shall have effect as if for the words ‘employment specified under paragraph (b ) of this subsection’, where those words occur in paragraph (d ) of that subsection and where they occur for the second time in paragraph (e ) of that subsection, there were substituted the words ‘employment which is treated for the purposes of the Scheme as if it were employment as a member of a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of this Act’.

S-2 Amendment of s. 27.

2 Amendment of s. 27.

(1) Subject to the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Fire Services Act, 1947, the Firemen's Pension Scheme may provide that in relation to persons of such classes as may be prescribed by the Scheme, being persons to whom awards may be made thereunder in respect of any employment, the provisions of the Scheme shall have effect to the exclusion of any provision for pension, allowance or gratuity in respect of that employment contained in or in force under any other enactment.

(2) Subsection (1) of the said section twenty-seven (which excludes statutory pension schemes other than the Firemen's Pension Scheme in the case of any employment as a member of a fire brigade...

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