{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-1/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-1/paragraph-6.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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Reckoning of service for purposes of awards",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), for the purpose of calculating an award payable to or in respect of an employee of the Board by reference to any period in years (including a period of pensionable or other service) the period shall be reckoned as—\nA + (B ÷ 365) years\nwhere—\nA is the number of completed years in the period, and\nB is the number of completed days in any remaining part of a year,\nand a part of a year which includes 29th February in a leap year and comprises 365 days shall be treated as a whole year.\n(2) Where, for the purpose of calculating an award payable to or in respect of a regular or retained firefighter—\n(a) it is necessary to determine his pensionable service reckonable by reason of service or employment before or after a particular date (“the material date”), and\n(b) by virtue of the receipt by the Board of a transfer value, he is entitled to reckon a period of pensionable service (“the credited period”) by reason of service or employment for a period (“the previous employment period”) which includes that date,\nthe credited period counts as pensionable service reckonable by reason of service or employment before and after the material date in the same proportion as that between the parts of the previous employment period falling before and after the material date.\n(3) Subject to rule 2 of Part 8 (special cases: award for or in relation to a volunteer firefighter) ..., any period of service as a retained firefighter or as a part-time employee of the Board shall be treated as service as a whole-time employee of the Board when calculating a person’s relevant service.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 6(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(4)(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 6(3) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/7), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(4)(b)(i) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 6(3) omitted (1.4.2015 with effect from 1.4.2006) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/7), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 1(4)(b)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 6(3) inserted (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(4)(b)(iii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 6(3) 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(4)(b)(iv) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 1 rule 6 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/ANNEX/part/1/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}