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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/431/article/2/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Firemen’s Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2016</dc:title><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>King's Printer for Scotland</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2017-03-08</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">FIRE SERVICES</dc:subject><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">PENSIONS</dc:subject>
					<dc:description>This Order amends the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme, as set out in schedule 2 of the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992.</dc:description>
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<P2para><Text>Schedule 2 of the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992<FootnoteRef Ref="f00003"/> (in which the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme is set out) is amended as follows.</Text>
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<Text>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)”.</Text>
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<Text>In rule G2 (pension contributions)—</Text>
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<Text>in paragraph (1), for “A regular firefighter shall” substitute “Subject to paragraphs (1B) to (1D), a regular firefighter shall”; and</Text>
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<Text>before paragraph (2) insert—</Text>
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<P2para><Text>Paragraph (1) does not apply to a firefighter below the age of 50 who has reckoned 30 years or more pensionable service.</Text>
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<Pnumber>1C</Pnumber>
<P2para><Text>A firefighter who is—</Text>
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<P3para><Text>below the age of 50 and has reckoned 30 years pensionable service; and</Text>
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<P3para><Text>entitled to be credited with additional pension benefit under rule B5B or B5C,</Text>
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<Text>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.</Text>
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<P2para><Text>Contributions under paragraph (1C) are payable—</Text>
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<P3para><Text>at the rate of 11% in the period beginning on 1st December 2006 and ending on 31st March 2012; and</Text>
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<P3para><Text>on and after 1st April 2012 at the rate specified in the Table in paragraph 3 of Part 1A of schedule 8.</Text>
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<Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/129" id="c00020" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1992" Number="0129">S.I. 1992/129</Citation>; relevant amending instruments are <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2005/566" id="c00021" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2005" Number="0566">S.S.I. 2005/566</Citation>, <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2006/342" id="c00022" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2006" Number="0342">S.S.I. 2006/342</Citation>, <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2008/161" id="c00023" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2008" Number="0161">S.S.I. 2008/161</Citation>, <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2012/106" id="c00024" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2012" Number="0106">S.S.I. 2012/106</Citation> and <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2015/140" id="c00025" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2015" Number="0140">S.S.I. 2015/140</Citation>.</Text></Para>
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