{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-consequential-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-9A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-consequential-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-9A.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/166",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-consequential-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/9A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9A",
  "heading": "Protection of increases in guaranteed minimum pensions after abolition of contracting-out",
  "text": "(1) Chapter 3 of Part 4 of the 1993 Act (protection for early leavers: protection of increases in guaranteed minimum pensions (“anti-franking”)) is modified as follows.\n(2) In the application of that Chapter to P as a member of the old scheme—\n(a) in section 83(1)(a)(i) (general protection principle), the reference to the time when P ceases to be in pensionable service under a scheme that was, before the second abolition date, a salary-related contracted-out scheme is to be taken as a reference to the time when P ceases to be in pensionable service in relation to the new scheme; and\n(b) subsequent references to “the cessation date” are to be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 9A inserted (6.4.2016) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/161), regs. 2, 4; 2015 c. 5 (N.I.), Sch. 13 para. 38"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/166/regulation/9A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:23.667460+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."
}