The Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2006

Reckoning of service for purposes of awards

5.—(1) For the purpose of calculating an award payable to or in respect of a member of the fire brigade by reference to any period in years (including a period of pensionable or other service) the period shall be reckoned as (A + B years)/365; where A is the number of completed years in the period, and B is the number of completed days in any remaining part of a year; and accordingly a part of a year which includes 29th February in a leap year and comprises 366 days, shall be treated as a whole year.

(2) Where, for the purpose of calculating an award payable to or in respect of a regular fireman—

(a) it is necessary to determine his pensionable service reckonable by reason of service or employment before or after a particular date (“the material date”); and

(b) by virtue of the receipt by the Authority of a transfer value, he is entitled to reckon a period of pensionable service (“the credited period”) by reason of service or employment for a period (“the previous employment period”) which includes that date,

the credited period counts as pensionable service reckonable by reason of service or employment before and after the material date in the same proportion as that between the parts of the previous employment period falling before and after the material date.

(3) In the case of a person who ceased to serve as a member of the fire brigade before 1st May 1975, Part III of Schedule 11 has effect and this article does not apply.

(4) Subject to article 27 and Part IV of Schedule 2, any period of service as a part-time member of the fire brigade shall be treated as service as a whole-time member of the fire brigade when calculating a person’s pensionable service.