{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-no-2-order-northern-ireland-2014/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-no-2-order-northern-ireland-2014/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/169",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-amendment-no-2-order-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Election; persons detrimentally affected",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to an amendment made by this Order which applies in relation to the pensions which are being paid or may become payable under the Scheme to or in respect of persons who, having served in an employment, in service which qualifies persons to participate in the benefits for which the Scheme provides, have ceased to serve therein before the date of coming into operation of this Order (whether or not they have subsequently recommenced any such service) or have died before that date.\n(2) Any person placed in a worse position than he or she would have been in if an amendment made by this Order had not been made in relation to any pension which is being paid or may become payable to that person may elect that the amendment shall not apply in relation to that pension.\n(3) Any such election shall be made by giving written notice to the Board within a period of 12 months starting with the date of coming into operation of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/169/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:06:31.906454+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."
}