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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1965/regulation-37",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/563",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Compensation) Regulations 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1965",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n“age of compulsory retirement” means, in relation to a regular fireman, the age at which he would become liable to be required to retire on account of age under the Firemen's Pension Scheme;\n“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1958;\n“the Act of 1933” means the Local Government Act;\n“the Act of 1963” means the London Government Act 1963;\n“compensating authority” means—\n(a) in relation to any person or class of persons affected by an order under Part II of the Act or Part VI of the Act of 1933, the authority designated by the order as the compensating authority for the purposes of the application of these Regulations in relation to that person or class of persons;\n(b) in relation to any person or class of persons affected by the Act of 1963 or of any instrument made thereunder, the fire authority by whom he was last employed prior to his loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments;\n“emoluments” means all salary, wages, fees and other payments paid or made to a person, for his own use, and by virtue of his employment, and includes the money value of any apartments, rations or other allowances in kind appertaining to his employment, but does not include payments for overtime, other than payments which are a usual incident of his employment, or any allowances payable to him to cover the cost of providing office accommodation or clerical or other assistance, or any travelling or subsistence allowance or other moneys to be spent, or to cover expenses incurred by him, for the purposes of his employment ; and\n“net emoluments” means—\n(a) in relation to employment as a regular fireman which has been lost or in which a person has suffered a diminution of emoluments, the annual rate of the person's emoluments as a regular fireman immediately before such loss or diminution, less the pension contributions payable by him under the Firemen's Pension Scheme; and\n(b) in relation to any other employment, the annual rate of the emoluments of that employment at the time in question, less such part of those emoluments as the officer was then liable to contribute under any pension scheme associated with his employment;\n“Firemen's Pension Scheme” means the Scheme from time to time in force under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947;\n“local authority” means the council of a county, county borough, metropolitan borough, London borough, county district, rural parish or borough included in a rural district and includes the Greater London Council, the Common Council of the City of London, the council of the Isles of Scilly, any two or more of those authorities acting jointly, any joint committee, combined authority or joint board and a police authority for a county, a borough or a combined police area;\n“long-term compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with the provisions of Part III of these Regulations for loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments ;\n“material date” means—\n(a) in relation to any person affected by an order under Part II of the Act or Part VI of the Act of 1933 or by an instrument under the Act of 1963, the date on which the order or instrument was made or such other date or dates as may be specified in the order or instrument in relation to him for all or any of the purposes of these Regulations;\n(b) in relation to any person affected by the Act of 1963, otherwise than by an instrument made thereunder, 1st April 1965;\n“national service” means service which is relevant service within the meaning of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951, and includes service immediately following such service as aforesaid, being service in any of Her Majesty's naval, military or air forces pursuant to a voluntary engagement entered into with the consent—\n(a) in the case of a person whose last relevant employment was as a justices' clerk, of the authority by whom he was appointed, or\n(b) in the case of any other person, of the authority or person under whom he held his last relevant employment,\nand, in relation to a regular fireman, service otherwise than as a member of a fire brigade maintained under the Fire Services Act 1947 which is pensionable under the Firemen's Pension Scheme;\n“office” includes any place, situation or employment and the expression “officer” shall be construed accordingly;\n“pensionable pay” and “average pensionable pay” have the same meanings, respectively, as in the Firemen's Pension Scheme;\n“pension scheme” means a scheme for the payment of superannuation benefits to a person as part of the terms and conditions of any employment held by him;\n“pensionable service” has the same meaning as in the Firemen's Pension Scheme;\n“reckonable service” in relation to a person means any period of whole-time employment and the proportionate part of any period of part-time employment in any relevant employment and includes any period of war service or national service undertaken on the person's ceasing to hold any such employment but does not include employment of which account has been taken, or is required to be taken, in calculating the amount of any superannuation benefit to which the person has become entitled;\n“registration officer” means a superintendent registrar, deputy superintendent registrar, registrar of births and deaths, deputy registrar of births and deaths, registrar of marriages appointed under section 7 of the Registration Service Act 1953, or a person employed under any such officer for the purposes of his functions as such officer;\n“regular fireman” means a member of a fire brigade of a class prescribed by the Firemen's Pension Scheme for the purposes of section 2 of the Fire Services Act 1951;\n“relevant employment” means employment—\n(a) under the Crown or in the service of a local authority in Great Britain, or\n(b) by any authority or body for the purposes of the Crown or of local government in Great Britain, or\n(c) under any officer employed as mentioned in either of the foregoing paragraphs of this definition for the purposes of the functions of the employing authority or body, or\n(d) preceding any of the foregoing employments which was reckonable for the purposes of any pension scheme associated with the employment which has been lost, or\n(e) in such other service as the Secretary of State may, in the case of any named officer, approve;\n“resettlement compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with Part II of these Regulations for loss of employment suffered by a person to whom these Regulations apply;\n“retirement compensation” means compensation payable in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 16, 17,18 or 19 of these Regulations;\n“tribunal” means a referee or board of referees appointed by the Minister of Labour after consultation with the Lord Chancellor;\n“war service” means war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act 1939, the Teachers Superannuation (War Service) Act 1939, the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1939 or employment for war purposes within the meaning of the Superannuation Schemes (War Service) Act 1940 and includes any period of service in the First World War in the armed forces of the Crown or in the forces of the Allied or Associated Powers if such service immediately followed a period of relevant employment and was undertaken either compulsorily or with the permission of the employer in that employment.\n(2) The following persons shall be deemed for the purposes of these Regulations to be officers of local authority, whether or not they are the holders of any office under such an authority, that is to say—\n(a) registration officers,\n(b) public analysts and deputy public analysts,\n(c) medical referees and deputy medical referees of crematoria provided by local authorities,\nand references to employment in the service of a local authority shall be construed accordingly.\n(3) Where under any provision of these Regulations a capital value is to be assigned to an annual amount, the capital value shall be calculated by the Government Actuary.\n(4) Unless the context otherwise requires, references in these Regulations to the provisions of any enactment, rule, regulation, order or scheme shall be construed as references to those provisions as amended or re-enacted by any subsequent enactment, rule, regulation, order or scheme.\n(5) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to an Act of Parliament.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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