The Firefighters' Pension Scheme Amendment (Scotland) Order 2006

56.  In Schedule 3 (awards on death: spouses)(1)–

(a) in Part I (spouse’s ordinary pension), in paragraph 1(2)(a), after “applies, the” insert “higher tier”;

(b) omit Part II (spouse’s special pension); and

(c) in Part IV (pension for surviving spouse of post-retirement marriage), in paragraph 1–

(i) in sub paragraph (1), omit “a special award under rule C2 or an augmented award under rule C3,”; and

(ii) for sub paragraph (2), substitute–

“(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, paragraph 1 of Part I has effect as if the reference in sub paragraph (1)(a) to the base pension were a reference to the appropriate proportion of the base pension.”.

(1)

Schedule 3 was amended by article 2 of and paragraphs 31 to 35 of the Schedule to S.S.I. 2004/385 and article 2 of and paragraph 90 of the Schedule to S.S.I. 2005/566.