{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-england-amendment-order-2006/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3434",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (England) (Amendment) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-england-amendment-order-2006",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "General transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) Where a person to whom a protected benefit was being paid or might become payable under the Compensation Scheme is placed in a worse position than he would have been in if the Scheme had continued to have effect without the amendments made by article 2, he may, by giving written notice to the fire and rescue authority liable or prospectively liable for payment of the benefit, elect that the provisions of the Scheme, in the form in which they existed immediately before the coming into force of this Order, shall continue to have effect in relation to the benefit.\n(2) Notice under paragraph (1) must be given not later than 31st March 2007.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a protected benefit is one paid, or capable of becoming payable, to or in respect of a person who, before the coming into force of this Order, ceased to be employed by an English fire and rescue authority or died.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3434/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:10:03.281196+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."
}