THE FIRE SERVICES (PENSIONABLE EMPLOYMENT) REGULATIONS, 1948.

8.—(1) Where any person who—

(a) has been employed in the National Fire Service,

(b) is not a former professional fireman, and

(c) is one of the class of firemen in whose case, by reason that they were expected to enter upon pensionable employment under a local authority on the appointed day otherwise than as members of fire brigades, deductions have, by direction of the Secretary of State, been made from the pay received by them in respect of their employment in the National Fire Service,

enters on the said day upon employment under a local authority otherwise than as a member of a fire brigade, he shall, if he makes to that authority the payment provided for in paragraph (2) of this Regulation, be entitled to reckon all service performed by him in his employment in the National Fire Service after the thirty-first day of March, 1946, as, if that authority are not a local Act authority, contributing service, or, if that authority are a local Act authority, as local Act scheme service, under, in either case, the said authority.

(2) The payment referred to in paragraph (1) of this Regulation, to be made by any person, is a payment equal to the following amount, that is to say, six per cent. of the total amount of pay received by him in his employment in the National Fire Service in respect of the period commencing on the first day of April, 1946, but in reckoning the said total amount, if that person was for any period holding a rank to which his promotion had, by virtue of paragraph (3) of Regulation 7 of the National Fire Service (General) Regulations, 1944(1) been expressed to be temporary only, his pay during the last-mentioned period shall be deemed to have been the pay which he would have received if the said promotion had not been made.

(3) In this Regulation “pay” has the same meaning as in the last foregoing Regulation.

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