The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes and Compensation Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2018

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 577 (W. 104)

Fire And Rescue Services, Wales

Pensions, Wales

The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes and Compensation Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2018

Made

9 May 2018

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

10 May 2018

Coming into force

1 June 2018

This Order is made in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 26(1) to (5) of the Fire Services Act 1947(1) and section 12 of the Superannuation Act 1972(2) as applied by section 16(3)(3) of that Act, and by sections 34 and 62 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004(4), now vested in the Welsh Ministers.

Before making this Order, and in accordance with section 34(5) of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, the Welsh Ministers consulted such persons as they considered appropriate.

The Welsh Ministers make 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1947 c. 41, repealed by section 52 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21).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 continue to have effect, in relation to Wales, 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 virtue of article 3 of S.I. 2004/2918 (W. 257). The name of the scheme was changed to the Firefighters’ Pension (Wales) Scheme by article 4 of that instrument. Section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947 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), sections 100 and 101 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(2) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), section 1 of the Police and Firemen’s Pensions Act 1997 (c. 52), section 256 of, and Schedule 25 to, the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), and by S.I. 1976/551. In so far as the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme is continued in force, in relation to Wales, by virtue of S.I. 2004/2918 (article 3(1)), section 26(1) to (5) have effect as if for each reference to the “Secretary of State” there were substituted a reference to the “National Assembly for Wales”; see article 2 of S.I. 2006/1672 (W. 160). By virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) functions under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947 are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales.

(2)

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

(3)

Section 16 was repealed by section 52 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 but continues to have effect, in relation to Wales, by virtue of article 3(2) of S.I. 2004/2918 (W. 257).

(4)

2004 c. 21. The powers conferred by section 34 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously vested in the National Assembly for Wales by virtue of section 62 of that Act. By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.