{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-england-order-2005/schedule/paragraph-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-england-order-2005/schedule/paragraph-78.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": "schedule/paragraph/78",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In rule L4 (prevention of duplication)—\n(a) omit paragraph (2)(c);\n(b) in paragraph (3), after “paragraph (4)”, insert “and rule L4B”;\n(c) in paragraph (4)—\n(i) for “service as a member of a brigade”, substitute “employment with a fire and rescue authority”\n(ii) for “such a member”, substitute “an employee of a fire and rescue authority”; and\n(iii) for “served as members of a brigade”, substitute “were employed by a fire and rescue authority”; and\n(d) after paragraph (4), insert—\n“(5) Where—\n(a) a person who is employed as a retained firefighter by more than one fire and rescue authority sustains a qualifying injury; and\n(b) it cannot be established that the injury is attributable to only one of those employments,\na single award shall be paid under rule J4; and the award shall be payable by the fire and rescue authorities by whom the person is so employed in such proportion as may be agreed or, in default of agreement, in equal shares.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule L4 was amended by S.I. 2001/3691."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2980/schedule/paragraph/78",
    "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."
}