http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/71/article/3/madeThe Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Contributions) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012Fire and rescue servicesFirePublic order, justice and rightsEmployment terms and conditionsPensionsenGovernment Printer for Northern Ireland2014-10-03FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES;PENSIONS This Order increases employee pension contribution rates in the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 and introduces tiered contribution rates into the firefighters’ pension scheme from 1st April 2012. 3 In Part G (pensionable pay and contributions) in article 57 (pension contributions) for paragraph (2) substitute– 2 a Subject to sub-paragraph (d), from 1st April 2012, the contribution rate is to be determined on the basis of the pensionable pay of a regular firefighter, in accordance with the following table:

Pensionable pay band	Contribution rate from 1st April 2012
Up to and including £15,000	11.0%
More than £15,000 and up to and including £21,000	11.6%
More than £21,000 and up to and including £30,000	12.3%
More than £30,000 and up to and including £40,000	12.4%
More than £40,000 and up to and including £50,000	12.6%
More than £50,000 and up to and including £60,000	12.8%
More than £60,000 and up to and including £100,000	13.0%
More than £100,000 and up to and including £120,000	13.1%
More than £120,000	13.3%

b Subject to sub-paragraph (d) within the period of 30 days beginning with 1st April 2012 the Board shall notify the firefighter member of the contribution rate determined under sub-paragraph (a). c Where the contribution rate under sub-paragraph (a) relates to a part-time regular firefighter, the contribution rate which applies to him shall be determined in accordance with that sub-paragraph on the basis of the pensionable pay of a whole-time regular firefighter. d Where in the course of the year there is a permanent change to the terms and conditions of a regular firefighter’s employment which affects his pensionable pay during the year such that the firefighter falls into a different pensionable pay band to that applied at the beginning of the year, the contribution rate shall be adjusted from the date that the pensionable pay is changed, as notified to the firefighter by the Board, to that of the applicable new band. e For the purposes of determining the appropriate pensionable pay band in the table set out in sub-paragraph (a), pensionable pay does not include any CPD payments paid to a regular firefighter by the Board under article 16C(5) but those payments will be included in pensionable pay for the purposes of calculating the pension contribution to be paid. Article 16C was inserted by paragraph 1 of the Schedule to S.R. 2008 No. 382 Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008