{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-and-transitional-provision-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-and-transitional-provision-scotland-regulations-2017/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2017/435",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-and-transitional-provision-scotland-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to Part 5 (retirement benefits)",
  "text": "(1) Part 5 (retirement benefits) is amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 71 (option to commute part of pension) in paragraph (4)—\n(a) in the opening words, after “exchange” insert “for a lump sum under this regulation”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (a), omit “for a lump sum under this regulation”.\n(3) In regulation 71A (option to commute part of an equivalent amount)—\n(a) in the opening words of paragraph (3) for “rule” substitute “regulation”; and\n(b) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(4) Where the person is entitled to the immediate payment of an equivalent amount to the 1992 Scheme lower tier ill-health pension and exercises the option to commute under this regulation, the lump sum is calculated in accordance with rule B7 (commutation-general provision) of the 1992 Scheme.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 71A was inserted by the Firefighters’ Pension Schemes (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/141) Part 2 regulation 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/435/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:15:07.127163+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."
}