Fire Services Act 1947

28 Supplementary provisions as to preservation of pensions etc..

(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations, applying to such classes of persons as may be specified in the regulations.—

(a) being pensionable members of fire brigades who whether before or after the passing of this Act entered or enter on employment in the civil service of the Crown or other pensionable employment under a local authority or any police authority not being a local authority, or

(b) being persons (other than pensionable members of fire brigades) employed in the National Fire Service who on the appointed day enter on employment in the civil service of the Crown or, otherwise than as members of fire brigades, on pensionable employment under a local authority or any such police authority as aforesaid,

make provision for securing that their former employment shall, to such extent and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the regulations, be treated for pension purposes as if it were the employment on which they entered or enter as mentioned in either of the two foregoing paragraphs.

(2) In the case of persons transferring from one employment to another in such circumstances that under the last foregoing subsection service in the former employment is treated for pension purposes as if it were service in the latter employment, regulations under this section may provide for the making of payments in respect of previous service—

(a) by the authority by whom any such person was employed in the former employment, to the authority to whose employment he was transferred or to a pension fund out of which awards may be made to him in respect of his service in the employment to which he was transferred; or

(b) out of a pension fund from which, apart from the transfer, awards might have been made to him in respect of his service in the former employment, to the authority to whose employment he was transferred or to such a fund as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection.

(3) In this section—

• the expression " pensionable members of fire brigades " means persons in whose case provision for pension purposes is made by or under any enactment in respect of their employment as members of fire brigades, including employment which for pension purposes is treated as employment as members of fire brigades;

• the expression " pensionable employment " means employment in service in respect of which provision for pension purposes is made by or under any enactment;

• the expression " pension purposes ", in relation to any employment, means the purposes of authorising pensions, gratuities or other awards in respect of that employment.