Fire Services Act 1947

39 Short title, extent, transitional provisions, repeals and savings.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Fire Services Act, 1947

(2) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

(3) The transitional provisions specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to the matters specified in that Schedule.

(4) As from the appointed day the enactments specified in the Sixth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(5) Without prejudice to the provisions of section thirty-eight of the [52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.] Interpretation Act, 1889 (which relates to the effect of repeals), save as provided in the Fifth Schedule to this Act, nothing in this Act shall affect—

(a) the operation of any pension scheme in relation to persons retiring before the appointed day from employment as members of fire brigades or the National Fire Service, or dying before that date while in such employment; or

(b) the operation of any pension scheme, the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act, 1939, or any scheme under section seven of that Act in relation to a person to whom section one of that Act or any scheme under the said section seven applies, unless and until the said person becomes a member of a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of this Act or becomes engaged in such other employment in connection with the provision of fire services as may for the purposes of this paragraph be specified in the Firemen's Pension Scheme.

In this subsection the expression " pension scheme " means the Fire Brigade Pensions Act, 1925, or any other scheme for the grant of pensions, allowances or gratuities on the retirement or death of persons employed as members of fire brigades.