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Article 3 General transitional provisionsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Where—

(a)

a provision of the Compensation Scheme (“the new provision”) re-enacts a provision of the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland)f1 (“the old provision”) with any modification; and

(b)

a person to whom a protected benefit was being paid or might become payable is placed in a worse position than he would have been in if the old provision had continued to have effect,

he may, by giving written notice to the Board, elect that the new provision is to apply in relation to the benefit as if it had re-enacted the old provision without modification.

(2)

Notice under paragraph (1) must be given not later than 16th April 2007.

(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 1st April 2006, ceased to be a member of the fire brigade or died.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Art. 3 in operation at 2.4.2007 with effect in accordance with art. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

S.R. 2006 No. 210