# The Fire Services (Compensation) Regulations 1974, Regulation 4: Grounds of entitlement to compensation


(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, any person to whom these Regulations apply and who suffers loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable to any provision of the Act or of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 or of any instrument made under either of those Acts shall be entitled to have his case considered for the payment of compensation under these Regulations, and such compensation shall be determined in accordance with these Regulations.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of these Regulations, paragraph (1) shall apply to a person who—
(a) for the purposes of entering on employment described in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph, terminates his employment as a regular fireman;
(b) at any time before 1st April 1974 entered the employment of a local authority described in section 2 or 21 of the Act; and
(c) would, but for his entry into the employment described in the said sub-paragraph (b), be transferred on 1st April 1974 in accordance with the provisions of section 255 of the Act to the employment of a local authority;
and in determining the compensating authority for the purposes of these Regulations, any loss or diminution of emoluments suffered by him which is attributable thereto shall be assumed to have occurred on the day after that on which he enters the employment described in the said sub-paragraph (b).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/540/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-compensation-regulations-1974/regulation-4
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