The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

Articles 5(4) and 24

PART IV CALCULATION OF AWARDS FOR PART-TIME SERVICE

1.  Where some or all of the person’s service, by virtue of which his pensionable service is reckonable, was part-time service, his —

(a) ordinary pension under Part I,

(b) short-service pension under Part II,

(c) ill-health pension under Part III,

(d) deferred pension under Part V,

as appropriate, shall be calculated in accordance with this Part.

2.—(1) The amount of an award listed in paragraph 1 is—

where—

A is the amount of that award calculated under the relevant Part if the average pensionable pay was the pay the person would have received had he been a whole-time member of the fire and rescue service;

B is the period in years of his pensionable service as a part-time member of the fire and rescue service;

C is the period in years of his pensionable service as a part-time member of the fire fire and rescue service, expressed as a fraction, where the numerator is the total number of contractual hours during the part-time service and the denominator is the number of contractual hours for one year of whole-time service; and

D is the period in years of his pensionable service

(2) Neither (B + C) nor D shall exceed 30 years.