{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2008/schedule/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008.",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Part 5 (awards on death: additional provisions)—\n(a) In rule 3 (gratuity in lieu of surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s pension), in paragraph (1), for the words from “Part 1” to “rule”, substitute “Part 2 of Schedule 29 to the Finance Act 2004 (lump sum death benefit rule); and\n(b) In rule 5 (increase of pensions and allowances during first 13 weeks)—\n(i) In paragraph (2)—\n(aa) in sub-paragraph (b), for “the Pension Scheme”, substitute “the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme, and”; and\n(bb) after sub-paragraph (b) insert—\n“(c) any children’s pensions payable under the New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme,”;\n(ii) in paragraph (4)(a), for “the Pension Scheme”, substitute “the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme”;\n(iii) in paragraph (5), for the words from “and” to “the Pension Scheme”, substitute “, a child’s ordinary or accrued allowance under the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme or a child’s pension under the New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme”; and\n(iv) in paragraph (7), for “the Pension Scheme”, substitute “the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme or the New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c.12. As to “the lump sum death benefit rule”, see section 168 of, and Part 2 of Schedule 29 to, that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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