{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-5/paragraph-1.json",
  "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": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), written notice of appeal against an opinion of the kind mentioned in rule 1(2) of Part 6 stating—\n(a) the grounds of the appeal; and\n(b) the appellant’s name and address,\nmust be given to the Board within 14 days beginning with the date on which he is supplied by the Board with a copy of the opinion.\n(2) Where—\n(a) notice of appeal is not given within the period specified in sub-paragraph (1); but\n(b) the Board is of the opinion that the person’s failure to give it within that period was not due to his own default,\nit may extend the period for giving notice to such length, not exceeding six months from the date mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), as it thinks fit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 1 in operation at 2.4.2007 with effect in accordance with art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/143/schedule/5/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}