The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Wales) Order 2007

Interpretation of Part 7

1.  In this Part—

“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Reserve Forces Act 1996(1);

“forces period” (“cyfnod yn y lluoedd”) means the period during which a person undertakes relevant service in the reserve forces;

“former authority” (“cyn awdurdod”), in relation to a reservist, means the authority by which the reservist was employed immediately before the reservist’s forces period began;

“qualifying injury” (“anaf cymhwysol”) means an injury, received by a person in the performance of the person’s duties as a firefighter, which is not wholly or mainly due to the person’s own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct;

“relevant service in the reserve forces” (“gwasanaeth perthnasol yn y lluoedd wrth gefn”) means service in the forces specified in section 1(2) of the 1996 Act—

(a)

in pursuance of a training obligation under Part 3 of that Act, or

(b)

by virtue of a call out for permanent service or a recall under the Reserve Forces Act 1980(2) or Part 7 of the 1996 Act; and

“reservist” (“person wrth gefn”) means a person who, immediately before a forces period, was a firefighter.

(1)

1996 c. 14.

(2)

1980 c. 9.