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

PART I PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF PREVIOUS SERVICE

1.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (4), an amount which a person undertakes to pay in accordance with this paragraph shall be paid by such regular instalments as will secure that the whole of the amount has been paid within a period of 5 years and before he reaches normal pension age; the instalments are payable to the Authority which may deduct them from his pay.

(2) The person may at any time discharge his liability in whole or part by paying to the Authority the whole or, as the case may be, a part of the balance then outstanding.

(3) If before he has paid the whole of the amount he—

(a) retires and does not become entitled to an award other than one under article 20 (repayment of aggregate pension contributions); or

(b) dies,

any balance then outstanding shall be treated as having been paid.

(4) If before he has paid the whole of the amount he retires and becomes entitled to an award other than one under article 20, the Authority may deduct the balance then outstanding from payments of any award payable to him.

2.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the sum referred to in article 57(3)(c) is

A × B × C,

where—

• A is the person’s annual pensionable pay at the time when he again became a regular fireman or if he is a part-time member of the fire brigade, the annual pensionable pay he would have received had he been a whole-time member,

• B is the factor ascertained from the Table by reference to his age at that time, and

• C is the number of complete years he was entitled to reckon as pensionable service when he retired.

Table

Age	Factor
Under 38	0.0950
38	0.0960
39	0.0970
40	0.0980
41	0.0990
42	0.1005
43	0.1020
44	0.1040
45	0.1055
46	0.1070
47	0.1090
48	0.1105
49	0.1125
50	0.1140
51	0.1160
52	0.1180
53	0.1200
54	0.1230
55 and over	0.1260

(2) The sum calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) shall be reduced by half of any amount which, if article 57(1) had applied and a sum had been payable under article 63 (transfer payments between fire authorities), would for the purpose of calculating that sum have constituted (C × D) in the formula set out in paragraph 2 of Part III.