The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Wales) Order 2007

Refund of aggregate pension contributions

8.—(1) A firefighter member who—

(a)leaves an authority’s employment without satisfying an eligibility condition; or

(b)remains in the authority’s employment but makes a contributions election before the firefighter member has accrued three months' qualifying service,

is entitled to a refund of the firefighter member’s aggregate pension contributions less

(i)the amount of any tax required to be deducted, and

(ii)such part of any contributions' equivalent premium paid in respect of the member as is permitted by or under section 61 of the 1993 Act.

(2) In paragraph (1), “aggregate pension contributions” (“cyfraniadau pensiwn cyfanredol”) means all of the payments made by the member to the member’s employing authority by way of pension contributions.