{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-and-pension-schemes-scotland-amendment-order-2016/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/77",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Compensation and Pension Schemes (Scotland) Amendment Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-and-pension-schemes-scotland-amendment-order-2016",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Scotland) Order 2006 (“the Compensation Scheme Order”) and the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Order 2007.\nArticle 3 amends the Compensation Scheme Order so as to allow a person entitled to a pension or gratuity under that Order to retain it following remarriage or the forming of a civil partnership. Pensions or gratuities which have been withdrawn due to existing legislation in this connection are reinstated with effect from 1st October 2015.\nArticle 5 amends the Compensation Scheme so as to authorise a deduction from a payment under the Order where a recipient is also in receipt of employment and support allowance.\nOther changes made by the Order involve minor corrections.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/77/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:08.931328+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."
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