{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-england-order-2005/schedule/paragraph-9",
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  "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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For rules A13 (compulsory retirement on account of age) and A14 (compulsory retirement on grounds of efficiency of brigade), substitute—\n“Normal pension age\nA13. The normal pension age of employees of a fire and rescue authority appointed on terms under which they are or may be required to engage in fire-fighting is 55.\nCompulsory retirement on grounds of efficiency\nA14. A regular firefighter who—\n(a) has attained the age of 50, and\n(b) has, or but for an election under rule G3 or a failure to make an election under rule G2A would have, completed 25 years' pensionable service,\nmay be required by the fire and rescue authority to retire on the grounds that his retention in the fire and rescue service would not be in the general interests of its efficiency.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2980/schedule/paragraph/9",
    "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."
}