The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2017/888 |
| Year | 2017 |
2017 No. 888
Public Service Pensions, England
The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017
Made 7th September 2017
Laid before Parliament 11th September 2017
Coming into force 6th October 2017
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (2)(f)1, 2(1), 3(1), (2) and (3), 18(5)(a) and (6) of, and paragraph 6(a) of Schedule 2 and paragraphs (1) to (4) of Schedule 3 to, the Public Service Pensions Act 20132.
In accordance with section 21 of that Act, the Secretary of State has consulted the representatives of such persons as appear to the Secretary of State to be likely to be affected by these Regulations.
In accordance with section 3(5) of that Act, these Regulations are made with the consent of the Treasury.
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 6th October 2017.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the amendments made by these regulations have effect from 1st April 2015.
(3) The amendments made by regulation 10(5) have effect from 6th October 2017.
Amendment of the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) Regulations 2014
2. The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) Regulations 20143are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 10.
Amendment to the Table of Contents
3. In the Table of Contents as regards regulation 46 for “Adjustment of provisional amount” substitute “Retirement amount of deferred pension”.
Amendment to Part 3 (scheme membership)
4. In Part 3 (scheme membership) in regulation 21 (pension credit member) for “WPRA 1999” substitute “WRPA 1999”4.
Amendments to Part 5 (retirement benefits)
5.—(1) Part 5 (retirement benefits) is amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 59(2) (annual rate of retirement pension (active members)) for “paragraphs (a), (b) and (c)” substitute “sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (ba)5and (c)”.
(3) In regulation 71 (option to commute part of pension) in paragraph (4)—
(a)
(a) after “exchange” insert “for a lump sum”; and
(b)
(b) in sub-paragraph (a) omit “for a lump sum”.
(4) In regulation 71A6(option to commute part of an equivalent amount)—
(a)
(a) in the opening words of paragraph (3) for “rule” substitute “regulation”; and
(b)
(b) after paragraph (3) insert—
“4 Where the person is entitled to the immediate payment of an equivalent amount to the 1992 Scheme lower tier ill-health pension and exercises the option to commute under this regulation, the lump sum is calculated in accordance with rule B7 (commutation-general provision) of the 1992 Scheme.”.
Amendments to Part 6 (death benefits)
6.—(1) Part 6 (death benefits) is amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 78(1) (surviving partner’s pension payable on death of active member) for “more than” substitute “at least”.
(3) In regulation 92 (bereavement pension: eligible child) in paragraphs (3) and (4) for “surviving partner’s pension”, in each place where the words occur, substitute “eligible child’s pension”.
Amendments to Part 8 (contributions)
7.—(1) Part 8 (contributions) is amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 111 (contributions during absence from work due to illness, injury, trade dispute or authorised absence) in paragraph (2), after “may” insert “elect to”.
(3) In regulation 119(5) (refund of employer additional contribution for ill health award following review)—
(a)
(a) for “instalments of higher tier ill-health pension or lower tier ill-health pension”, substitute “instalments of higher tier ill-health additional contribution or lower tier ill-health additional contribution”; and
(b)
(b) after “in respect of P”, in the first place where those words occur, insert “from the date that the entitlement ceased”.
Amendment to Part 9 (firefighters’ pension fund)
8. In Part 9 (firefighters’ pension fund) in...
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