The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2007

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1074 (W.112)

FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES, WALES

PENSIONS, WALES

The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2007

Made

28 March 2007

Coming into force

29 March 2007

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947(1) and section 12 of the Superannuation Act 1972(2), as applied by section 16(3) of that Act(3), and sections 36, 53, 60 and 62 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004(4), makes the following Order:

(1)

1947 c. 41, repealed by section 52 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21). Subsections (1) to (5) of section 26 were continued in force, for the purposes of the scheme established under that section as the Firemen’s Pension Scheme and set out in the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/129), by the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Firefighters' Pension Scheme) (Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2918 (W.257)). The name of the scheme was changed to the Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme, by article 4(1) of that Order. The scheme was further amended by the Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme (Amendment) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1672 (W. 160)). Section 26 of the 1947 Act was amended by section 1 of the Fire Services Act 1951 (c. 27), section 42 of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 (c. 65), section 33 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Theft Act 1968 (c. 60), sections 16 and 29 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), section 100 of, and Schedule 27 to, the Social Security Act 1973 (c. 38), section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), section 32 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), section 1 of the Police and Firemen’s Pensions Act 1997 (c. 52), and Schedule 25 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), and article 2 of the Social Security (Modification of Fire Services Act 1947) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/551).

(2)

1972 c. 11; section 12 was amended by the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 7).

(3)

Section 16 was continued in force, for the purposes of the Firemen’s Pension Scheme (renamed the Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme by the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Firefighters Pension Scheme) (Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2918 (W.257)).

(4)

2004 c. 21