{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-1/paragraph-3.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/ANNEX/part/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exclusive application to regular and retained firefighters",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) and Part 8 (special cases), this Scheme applies in relation to regular 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 .\n(2) 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 regular or retained firefighter.\n(3) 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.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 3(1) substituted (1.4.2015 with effect from 1.4.2006) by The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/7), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 1(3)(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 3(2) substituted (1.4.2015 with effect from 1.4.2006) by The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/7), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 1(3)(c) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 3 heading substituted (1.4.2015 with effect from 1.4.2006) by The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/7), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 1(3)(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 3 in operation at 2.4.2007 with effect in accordance with art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c.49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/143/schedule/ANNEX/part/1/paragraph/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."
}