{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/143",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "General transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a provision of the Compensation Scheme (“the new provision”) re-enacts a provision of the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) (“the old provision”) with any modification; and\n(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,\nhe 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.\n(2) Notice under paragraph (1) must be given not later than 16th April 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 1st April 2006, ceased to be a member of the fire brigade or died.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in operation at 2.4.2007 with effect in accordance with art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2006 No. 210"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/143/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:58.377332+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."
}