The Firemen’s Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2016

Amendment of the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992

2.—(1) Schedule 2 of the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992(1) (in which the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme is set out) is amended as follows.

(2) In rule G1 (pensionable pay and average pensionable pay), at the end of paragraph (4)(b) insert “(or would have been payable but for paragraph (1B) of that rule)”.

(3) In rule G2 (pension contributions)—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “A regular firefighter shall” substitute “Subject to paragraphs (1B) to (1D), a regular firefighter shall”; and

(b) before paragraph (2) insert—

“(1B) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a firefighter below the age of 50 who has reckoned 30 years or more pensionable service.

(1C) A firefighter who is—

(a) below the age of 50 and has reckoned 30 years pensionable service; and

(b) entitled to be credited with additional pension benefit under rule B5B or B5C,

is, until that person attains the age of 50, to pay pension contributions to the fire and rescue authority only in relation to that additional pension benefit.

(1D) Contributions under paragraph (1C) are payable—

(a) at the rate of 11% in the period beginning on 1st December 2006 and ending on 31st March 2012; and

(b) on and after 1st April 2012 at the rate specified in the Table in paragraph 3 of Part 1A of schedule 8.”.

(1)

S.I. 1992/129; relevant amending instruments are S.S.I. 2005/566, S.S.I. 2006/342, S.S.I. 2008/161, S.S.I. 2012/106 and S.S.I. 2015/140.