Paragraph 1 Award for or in relation to employee who is not a regular or retained firefighterI1

This rule applies where a person who is an employee of the Board but is not a F1... firefighter suffers an injury, without his own default—

If the person retires in consequence of the injury, the Board may, subject to paragraph (4), grant him such pension or gratuity as they think fit.

If the person dies from the effects of the injury, either before or after retiring from that employment, the Board may, subject to paragraph (4)—

The total of—

must not exceed the appropriate amount.

An additional benefit is any payment of whatever nature made—

except a benefit payable under Part V of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992^f1; and a relevant additional benefit is, in relation to a pension or allowance under this rule, one by way of periodical payments and, in relation to a gratuity under this rule, one otherwise than by way of periodical payments.

F2Subject to paragraph (6A), the appropriate amount is—

which would have been payable on the required assumptions.

Where a person is or has been a part-time employee, the appropriate amount is that found by applying the formula—

$(Ax\left(B+C\right))÷D$

where—

A is the amount that would have been calculated as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph (6) (as the case may be) if the person had been a whole-time employee of the Board;

B is the period in years of his pensionable service as a whole-time employee of the Board;

C is the period of years of his pensionable service as a part-time employee of the Board, expressed as a fraction, where the numerator is the total number of contractual hours during the part-time employment and the denominator is the number of contractual hours for one year of whole-time employment; and

D is the period in years of his pensionable service.

The required assumptions are—