{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-england-order-2005/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-england-order-2005/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2980",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Amendment) (England) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-england-order-2005",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Amendment) (England) Order 2005.\n(2) This Order shall come into force on 21st November 2005 but, subject to paragraph (3), the amendments set out in the Schedule shall have effect from 1st October 2004.\n(3) (a) The following amendments shall have effect from 21st November 2005—\n(i) the amendments made by paragraph 9, in so far as it relates to rule A13 (relating to normal pension age); and by paragraph 15(a)(iii), (b)(ii), (c) and (d) (relating to deferred pensions); and\n(ii) the amendments made by paragraph 7(a) and (b)(i), paragraph 75(d), in so far as it relates to the insertion of paragraphs (5) and (6) of rule L1, and paragraphs 78, 79 and 82(b) (relating to the prevention of duplication of certain awards);\n(b) the following amendments shall have effect from 13th September 2004—\n(i) the amendment made by paragraph 81(b) (relating to the definition of “independent qualified medical practitioner”); and\n(ii) the amendment made by paragraph 86(b)(ii)(aa) (relating to service reckonable on receipt of transfer value); and\n(c) the amendment made by paragraph 24 (relating to limiting awards to widows) shall have effect from 1st March 1992.\n(4) In this Order “the Scheme” means the Firefighters' Pension Scheme, set out in Schedule 2 to the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992, as it has effect in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/129; amended by 1997/2309 and 2851, 1998/1010, 2001/3649 and 3691 and 2004/1912. 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 That Act was repealed by section 52 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21).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 S.I. 2004/2306. The name of the scheme was changed, in relation to England and Scotland, by article 4(1) of S.I. 2004/2306."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Secretary of State’s functions under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947, in so far as they were exercisable in relation to Scotland, were devolved to Scottish Ministers by section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) and article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to Scottish Ministers etc) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1750). The Secretary of State’s functions under section 3(5) of the Fire Services Act 1947, in so far as they were exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672); see the entry for the Fire Services Act 1947 in Schedule 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2980/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:57.801842+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."
}