Fire Services Act 1947

14 (1) Regulations made with the approval of the Treasury may provide for authorising or requiring the appropriate authority to pay compensation in respect of loss of emoluments or pension—

(a) to members of police forces and persons employed by local authorities, not being in either case persons who were transferred to the National Fire Service, as to whom the Secretary of State is satisfied that by reason of the National Fire Service (General) Regulation, 1941, they suffered a loss of emoluments ;

(b) to persons who, having been members of the National Fire Service immediately before the appointed day, become on that day members of a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of this Act and suffer a reduction of emoluments in comparison with the emoluments determined by the regulations to be appropriate to their former employment in connection with the provision of fire services ;

(c) to persons who immediately before the eighteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-one, were employed by a local authority, or were engaged in war service within the meaning of the [2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 94.] Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act, 1939, having left employment with the local authority to undertake such service, and immediately before the appointed day were employed for the purposes of the Fire Services (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1941, otherwise than as members of the National Fire Service, and who either—

(a) become employed on the appointed day by a local authority and suffer a reduction in emoluments in comparison with the emoluments determined by the regulations to be appropriate as aforesaid, or

(b) do not on the appointed day become employed by a local authority.

(2) Regulations may authorise or require the payment by the appropriate authority of emoluments, and of pensions, gratuities or allowances, of such amounts and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in the case of persons who, having at any time before the appointed day been chief officers of fire brigades maintained in pursuance of the Fire Brigades Act, 1938, do not on or after the appointed day become chief officers of fire brigades maintained in pursuance of this Act.

(3) In this paragraph the expression " appropriate authority ", in relation to the whole or any part of any payment, means a fire authority or the Secretary of State, as may be prescribed.

(4) Regulations under this paragraph may make provision as to the determination of questions arising under the regulations.