{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1965/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1965/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1965/563",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Compensation) Regulations 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1965",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Factors governing the payment of retirement compensation",
  "text": "(1) A person entitled to retirement compensation under Regulation 16, 17 or 18 of these Regulations shall pay to the compensating authority an amount equal to any award by way of repayment of aggregate contributions received by him under the Firemen's Pension Scheme on ceasing to be a regular fireman but, where he has made the said payment to the compensating authority before becoming entitled to retirement compensation as aforesaid, that authority may, at his request before he becomes so entitled, refund the payment to him; and if the said payment is not made to the compensating authority, or is refunded by them, the compensation shall be reduced by an annual amount the capital value of which is equal to the amount of the said award under the Firemen's Pension Scheme.\n(2) In the case of a person who undertook, for the purposes of the Firemen's Pension Scheme, to make payments by regular instalments in respect of previous service, the compensating authority shall be empowered to deduct the balance of the sum outstanding under the undertaking when he ceased to serve as a regular fireman, if any, from any payments to him of retirement compensation.\n(3) The provisions of the Firemen's Pension Scheme relating to the allocation of a pension, that is to say to the surrender by a regular fireman of a portion of his pension in favour of his wife or such other person as is substantially dependent on him, shall, subject to any necessary modifications have effect in relation to any retirement compensation as they have effect in relation to an ordinary or ill-health pension under the Firemen's Pension Scheme; and without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this paragraph—\n(a) where before the date of the loss or diminution a regular fireman has, under the Firemen's Pension Scheme, allocated an ordinary pension and the allocation has taken effect, the said provisions shall apply as if the retirement compensation were an ordinary pension; and\n(b) the said provisions shall apply as if any reference to the fire authority included a reference to the compensating authority and as if any reference to retirement included a reference to a person becoming entitled to retirement compensation.\n(4) Where a pension or notional pension under the Firemen's Pension Scheme by a reference to which any retirement compensation falls to be assessed would, under that Scheme, be reduced in respect of any period beyond the age of sixty-five years, the retirement compensation shall be re-assessed on the person attaining that age, account being taken of the said reduction.\n(5) Where a person to whom retirement compensation is payable is in employment in which he is subject to a pension scheme, then, as the compensating authority may think reasonable having regard to the said pension scheme, they may on awarding, or reviewing under Regulation 28 of these Regulations, that compensation reduce or withhold so much thereof as is attributable to the provisions of Regulation 1(1)(b) of these Regulations.\n(6) Where a person to whom retirement compensation is payable is, for any period, in such employment that if a pension were payable to him under the Firemen's Pension Scheme the fire authority would be empowered to withdraw the whole or any part of the pension the compensating authority shall have the like power to withdraw the compensation.\n(7) Where a person dies while in receipt of retirement compensation, then if the aggregate of—\n(a) the sums paid in respect of that compensation, or the sums which would have been so paid but for the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Regulation; and\n(b) the capital value of any compensation payable under Regulation 23 of these Regulations in respect of his death,\nis less than his aggregate contributions for the purposes of the Firemen's Pension Scheme, there shall be paid to his estate the difference by way of adjustment of the amount of the retirement compensation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/563/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:58:44.674273+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}