Firemen's Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order 1967

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1967/1230

1967 No. 1230

FIRE SERVICES

The Firemen's Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order 1967

10thAugust 1967

18thAugust 1967

1stSeptember 1967

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947(a), as amended and extended by sections 1 and 2(1) of the Fire Services Act 1951(b), section 42 of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951(c) and section 8 of the Fire Services Act 1959(d), I hereby, with the approval of the Treasury and after consultation with the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council and the Scottish Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council, make the following Order:—

1. For Article 27(4) of the principal Scheme (which relates to awards not payable in cases of transfer) there shall be substituted the following provision:—

"(4) Where an award under Article 43 by way of repayment of aggregate contributions ceases to be payable under this Article, there shall continue to be payable—

(a) where the award ceases to be payable under paragraph (1) or (2), so much of the award as is unpaid and represents a return of additional contributions paid under Article 40, and

(b) where the award ceases to be payable under paragraph (2), and the regular fireman concerned paid pension contributions at a rate related to 6% of his pensionable pay, so much of the award as is unpaid and would not have been payable had he paid such contributions at a rate related to 5% of his pensionable pay.".

2.—(1) For paragraph (1)(c) of Article 35 of the principal Scheme (which relates to the reckoning of previous service otherwise than as a member of a fire brigade or in local government employment) there shall be substituted the following provision:—

"(c) who within 3 months of his becoming a regular fireman or 6 months of the coming into operation of the Rules, Regulations or other provisions under which the transfer value is paid as aforesaid, whichever is the later, or within such longer period as the fire authority may in his case allow, undertakes to pay in accordance with Schedule 5 a sum equal to the balance of any liability outstanding immediately before he ceased to be engaged in his former service in respect of payments or contributions he was then making as a condition of reckoning past service as contributing

(a) 1947 c. 41.

(b) 1951 c. 27.

(c) 1951 c. 65.

(d) 1959 c. 44.

service or otherwise for the purposes of the said superannuation arrangements, together with a sum equal to any...

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