{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-3/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-3/paragraph-2.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/3/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Augmented award for spouse or civil partner",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where a person who is or has been a regular or retained firefighter dies from the effects—\n(a) of a qualifying injury; or\n(b) of infirmity of mind or body occasioned by a qualifying injury,\nleaving a surviving spouse or surviving civil partner, and one of the conditions in paragraph (2) is satisfied.\n(2) The conditions are—\n(a) that the injury was received in the execution of duties performed, in circumstances in which there was an intrinsic likelihood of his receiving a fatal injury, for the immediate purpose of saving the life of another person or of preventing loss of human life; or\n(b) that the Board is of the opinion that the preceding condition may be satisfied and that this rule should apply; or\n(c) that the Board is of the opinion that the injury was received in such circumstances that it would be inequitable if this rule were not to apply.\n(3) Where this rule applies, rule 1 of this Part applies with the modifications set out in paragraphs (4) and (5).\n(4) For the purpose of calculating the special pension, Part 1 of Schedule 2 has effect with the substitution for “45%” of “50%”.\n(5) Unless they produce a more favourable result, paragraphs (3) to (5) of rule 1 do not apply, and the amount of the gratuity is twice the annual pensionable pay, at the date of the death, of a regular firefighter employed in the role of firefighter and entitled to reckon 30 years’ service for the purposes of pay.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 3 rule 2(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. 3(3) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 3 rule 2(1) substituted (5.7.2024 with effect from 5.12.2005) by The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes and Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/130), regs. 1(1)(2), 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 3 rule 2 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/3/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}