{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-2/paragraph-4.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/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Commutation of small compensatory pensions",
  "text": "(1) Where the total amount of—\n(a) any pension under rule 1 payable to a person who has attained state pensionable age; and\n(b) any pension to which he is entitled under article 74 of the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme or article 37 of the New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (pension credit member’s entitlement to pension) or regulation 113 of the 2015 Regulations (entitlement to pension credit members’ pension); and\n(c) any increase under the Pensions (Increase) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971,\ndoes not exceed the commutation limit for the purposes of Part 1 of Schedule 29 to the Finance Act 2004 (lump sum rule), the Board may commute the pension for a lump sum.\n(2) The amount of a lump sum under this rule is the actuarial equivalent calculated from tables prepared by the Government Actuary.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 2 rule 4(1)(b) substituted (4.7.2008 with effect from 6.4.2006) by The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/238), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 2(d) (with arts. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 2 rule 4(1)(b) inserted (18.1.2016 with effect from 1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) and the New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/422), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 2 rule 4 in operation at 2.4.2007 with effect in accordance with art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.35(N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c. 12. As to “the lump sum rule”, see section 166 of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/143/schedule/ANNEX/part/2/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}