The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2014

Amendment of Part 14 (payment of awards)

12.  In Part 14—

(a) in rule 1 (authorities responsible for payment of awards)—

(i) in paragraph (1), for “An award” substitute “Subject to paragraph (3), an award”;

(ii) after paragraph (2), insert—

“(3) An award payable to or in respect of a special member by reason of that person having been employed as a retained firefighter is payable by the authority by whom he or she was employed, or, in the case of a special member whose contracts of employment as a retained firefighter are treated as one employment in accordance with rule 4(2) of this Part, the authority which was the last employer.”;

(b) in rule 4 (pensions under more than one contract of employment)—

(i) renumber the existing paragraph as “(1)”;

(ii) at the end, insert—

“(2) Where a person is, or is eligible to be, a special member of this Scheme in respect of more than one contract of employment, the person may elect to treat those employments as one employment.

(3) An election under paragraph (2) shall be made by giving notice in writing to the authority and shall be given at the same time as the application under rule 5A(5) of  Part 11.”.