Firemen's Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order 1968
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1968/157 |
1968 No. 157
FIRE SERVICES
The Firemen's Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order 19687thFebruary 1968
15thFebruary 1968
19thFebruary 1968
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 11 of the principal Scheme (which relates to a widow's special pension) there shall be substituted the following Articles:—
" Widow's special pension
11.—(1) Where a regular fireman dies from the effects of a qualifying injury or from the effects of infirmity of mind or body occasioned by such an injury, his widow shall be entitled to a widow's special pension.
(2) Without prejudice to Article 11 A, a widow's special pension shall be of an amount calculated in accordance with Part IV of Schedule 2, subject however to Schedule 4.
Widow's augmented award where husband's death results from an injury received in saving life
11A.—(1) This Article shall apply to a widow of a regular fireman who dies on or after 19th February 1968 from the effects of a qualifying injury or from the effects of infirmity of mind or body occasioned by such an injury, where the injury was received in the execution of duties which, in the opinion of the fire authority, were performed by the fireman—
(a) for fire-fighting purposes and for the immediate purpose of saving the life of another person or of preventing loss of human life, and
(b) in circumstances in which there was an intrinsic likelihood of the fireman receiving a fatal injury.
(a) 1947 c. 41.
(b) 1951 c. 27.
(c) 1951 c. 65.
(d) 1959 c. 44.
(2) A widow's special pension payable to a widow to whom this Article applies shall be of an amount calculated in accordance with Part VI of Schedule 2 in respect of any week for which the amount of the pension so calculated is greater than the amount calculated in accordance with Part IV of Schedule 2, subject however, in either case, to Schedule 4.
(3) A widow to whom this Article applies shall be entitled to a gratuity in addition to a widow's special pension.
(4) The gratuity under paragraph (3) shall be of an amount equal to twice the annual pensionable pay, at the date of the death of the person in respect of whom the gratuity is payable, of a regular fireman—
(a) holding the rank of fireman in the fire brigade maintained by the Greater London Council, and
(b) entitled to reckon 30 years' service for the...
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