Firemen's Pension Scheme Order, 1955
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1955/1571 |
1955 No. 1571
PENSIONS
The Firemen's Pension Scheme Order, 195513thOctober 1955
19thOctober 1955
20thOctober 1955
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section twenty-six of the Fire Services Act, 1947(a), 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. After Article 15 of the Firemen's Pension Scheme, 1952, set out in the First Appendix to the Firemen's Pension Scheme Order, 1952(b), there shall be inserted the following Articles:—
"Service before the appointed day in certain special cases
16.—(1) Where a person who became a fireman on the appointed day was before that day engaged—
(a) in service as a member of a police force;
(b) in service under the Crown; or
(c) in pensionable employment under a local authority;
but that service or employment cannot be reckoned as pensionable service for the purposes of this Scheme by virtue of any other provision of this Scheme, then the fire authority by whom he is employed may permit the whole or any part of that service or employment to be reckoned in his case as pensionable service for the purposes of this Scheme subject to his undertaking, before the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, to pay in accordance with the Eleventh Schedule to this Scheme such sum as they may direct:
Provided that a fire authority shall not exercise the powers conferred by this paragraph without the approval of the Secretary of State.
(2) Where hi the case of any person service in the police force for any area is reckoned as pensionable service by virtue of this Article, the police authority for that area may make in respect thereof to the fire authority by whom he is employed such payments as may be approved by the Secretary of State.
Service of certain firemen who were whole-time members of the National Fire Service immediately before the appointed day
17.—(1) The provisions of this Article shall have effect in the case of any fireman—
(a) who was a whole-time member of the National Fire Service immediately before the appointed day;
(b) S.I. 1952/944 (1952 I, p. 1003).
(b) who has served continuously since the appointed day as a whole-time member of a fire brigade appointed on terms under which he was or might be required to engage in fire-fighting; and
(c) whose employment was, until after the expiration of...
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