Firemen's Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order 1970
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1970/250 |
| Year | 1970 |
1970 No. 250
FIRE SERVICES
The Firemen's Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order 197017thFebruary 1970
26thFebruary 1970
1stMarch 1970
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947(a) (read with Article 2(1) of the Minister for the Civil Service Order 1968(b)), as amended and extended by sections 1 and 2(1) of the Fire Services Act 1951(c), section 42 of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951(d) and section 8 of the Fire Services Act 1959(e), I hereby, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, and after consultation with the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council and the Scottish Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council, make the following Order:—
1. This Order may be cited as the Firemen's Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order 1970 and shall come into operation on 1st March 1970.
2. In this Order the expression "the principal Scheme" means the Firemen's Pension Scheme 1966 set out in Appendix 2 to the Firemen's Pension Scheme Order 1966(f), as amended (g).
3.—(1) At the beginning of paragraph (2) of Article 51 of the principal Scheme (expenses and receipts of fire authorities) there shall be inserted the words "So long as the fire authority maintain a pension reserve account in accordance with paragraph (3)".
(2) For paragraphs (3) and (4) of the said Article 51 there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—
"(3) A fire authority which maintain a pension reserve account immediately before 1st March 1970 shall continue to maintain such an account on and after that day until it is exhausted in accordance with paragraph (4).
(4) Where in any year the payments debited to the account mentioned in paragraph (1) exceed the receipts credited thereto, and the fire authority maintain a pension reserve account, the balance shall be met out of the pension reserve account to the extent thereof."
4. For Article 66 of the principal Scheme (temporary employment in connection with the provision of fire services) there shall be substituted the following Article:—
(a) 1947 c. 41.
(b) S.I. 1968/1656 (1968 III, p. 4485).
(c) 1951 c. 27.
(d) 1951 c. 65.
(e) 1959 c. 44.
(f) S.I. 1966/1045 (1966 II, p. 2504).
(g) The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1968/397 (1968 I, p. 1076).
'Temporary employment in connection with the provision of fire services
66.—(1) This Article shall apply in the case of a person who ceases or has ceased to perform duties as a regular fireman in order to enter temporary employment on duties connected with the provision of fire services, being—
(a) employment as an instructor at the central training institution or any training centre maintained by the...
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