1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015.
(2) With the exception of regulation 10, these Regulations come into force on 1 April 2015.
(3) Regulation 10 comes into force on the same day as paragraph 38 of Schedule 13 to the Pensions Act 2014(1) comes into force, and on that day regulation 9 ceases to have effect.
2. In these Regulations—
“the 1993 Act” (“Deddf 1993”) means the Pension Schemes Act 1993(2);
“the 2013 Act” (“Deddf 2013”) means the Public Service Pensions Act 2013(3);
“the new scheme” (“y cynllun newydd”) means the scheme established by regulation 2 of the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2015(4); and
“old scheme” (“hen gynllun”) means the scheme constituted by the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992(5) as it has effect in Wales or the scheme constituted by the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Order 2007(6).
S.I. 1992/129; see Schedule 2. The name of the scheme was changed to the Firefighters’ Pension (Wales) Scheme by article 4(1) of S.I. 2004/2918 (W. 257). Other amendments made are not relevant to these Regulations.
S.I. 2007/1072 (W. 110); see Schedule 1 which is the subject of amendments not relevant to these Regulations.