Paragraph 3 Exclusive application to regular and retained firefightersF3I1

Subject to paragraph (3) and Part 8 (special cases), this Scheme applies in relation to F1regular and retained firefighters and their spouses or civil partners and dependants to the exclusion of pension provision under any enactment other than Article 10 of the 1984 Order and the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 ^f1.

In paragraph (1) “pension provision” means any provision for the payment of an award, on death or permanent disablement, in respect of employment as a F2regular or retained firefighter.

A person who is not an employee of the Board but whose employment is, under rule 4 or 5 of this Part, treated for the purposes of this Scheme as employment as a regular firefighter, is not a regular firefighter for the purposes of this rule.