# The Fire Services (Retirement of Senior Officers) Regulations 1973, Regulation 5: Application of Pension Scheme


(1) Subject to any necessary adaptations and subject to the modifications set out in the Schedule to these Regulations, the provisions of the Pension Scheme (including, subject to paragraph (2), those mentioned in Regulation 4(3)) shall apply in relation to a benefit payable under these Regulations as though they were set out in these Regulations.
(2) Separate notice of commutation or of allocation shall be given under Article 21 or 41 of the Pension Scheme for the purposes of that Scheme and of these Regulations and, where such a notice has been given for the purposes hereof—
(a) the said Article 21 or 41 shall have effect in relation to the benefit by way of pension under these Regulations as reduced in accordance with Regulation 4(2); and
(b) the lump sum or pension provided for in the said Article 21 or 41 shall, subject to the provisions of these Regulations, be payable as benefit thereunder but nothing in Regulation 4(2) shall apply in relation thereto.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/1951/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-retirement-of-senior-officers-regulations-1973/regulation-5
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