{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/part-3/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/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Limitation on award to spouse or civil partner by reference to date of marriage or formation of partnership",
  "text": "(1) A surviving spouse or surviving civil partner is not entitled to a special pension under rule 1 or an augmented pension under rule 2 unless he was married to, or had a civil partnership with, the deceased during a period before the deceased last ceased to be a regular firefighter.\n(2) A surviving spouse or surviving civil partner who, but for paragraph (1), would be entitled to a pension mentioned in that paragraph, is instead entitled to a pension calculated in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 2.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 3 rule 3(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)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme Pt. 3 rule 3(2) inserted (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)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 3 rule 3(3) omitted (5.7.2024 with effect from 5.12.2005) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes and Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/130), regs. 1(1)(2), 4(2)(c)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 3 rule 3 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/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."
}