{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-increased-pension-entitlement-scotland-order-2009/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-increased-pension-entitlement-scotland-order-2009/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/184",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters' Pension Scheme Amendment (Increased Pension Entitlement) (Scotland) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-increased-pension-entitlement-scotland-order-2009",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After rule P3 (payments) insert–\n“Authorisation of payment of GMP-related payments\nP4 (1) The relevant fire and rescue authority may pay GMP related payments to–\n(a) a person to whom this Part applies; and\n(b) a deceased entitled member.\n(2) Where a relevant fire and rescue authority has paid GMP related payments before 6th April 2009, the authority may not recover those payments after 6th April 2009.\n(3) In this rule, a deceased entitled member is a person who–\n(a) at the date of his death was entitled to a pension under this Scheme;\n(b) at that date was entitled to a guaranteed minimum pension; and\n(c) has in any tax year since entitlement to the guaranteed minimum pension commenced received a GMP related payment.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/184/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:01:30.883005+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."
}