{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-wales-order-2007/article-1",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/1073",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters' Compensation Scheme (Wales) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-compensation-scheme-wales-order-2007",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The title of this Order is the Firefighters' Compensation Scheme (Wales) Order 2007 and it comes into force on 29 March 2007; but—\n(a) rule 3 of Part 2 of the Compensation Scheme (compensation for death or permanent incapacity while on duty), and so much of that Scheme as relates to that rule, has effect from 1 April 2000; and\n(b) the remainder of the Compensation Scheme has effect from 1 April 2006.\n(2) This Order applies in relation to Wales.\n(3) In this Order—\n“the Compensation Scheme” means the Firefighters' Compensation Scheme (Wales) 2007, set out in Schedule 1 to this Order; and\n“the Pension Scheme” means the Scheme set out in Schedule 2 to the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/129. The Scheme was made under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947 (c. 41). That Act was repealed by section 52 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21). Subsections (1) to (5) of section 26 were continued in force, for the purposes of the scheme established under that section as the Firemen’s Pension Scheme, by the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Firefighters' Pension Scheme) (Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2918). The name of the scheme was changed to the Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme, by article 4(1) of that Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/1073/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:00:59.925967+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."
}