{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-england-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-england-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/888",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-england-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to Part 5 (retirement benefits)",
  "text": "(1) Part 5 (retirement benefits) is amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 59(2) (annual rate of retirement pension (active members)) for “paragraphs (a), (b) and (c)” substitute “sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (ba) and (c)”.\n(3) In regulation 71 (option to commute part of pension) in paragraph (4)—\n(a) after “exchange” insert “for a lump sum”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (a) omit “for a lump sum”.\n(4) In regulation 71A (option to commute part of an equivalent amount)—\n(a) in the opening words of paragraph (3) for “rule” substitute “regulation”; and\n(b) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(4) Where the person is entitled to the immediate payment of an equivalent amount to the 1992 Scheme lower tier ill-health pension and exercises the option to commute under this regulation, the lump sum is calculated in accordance with rule B7 (commutation-general provision) of the 1992 Scheme.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (ba) was inserted by regulation 2 and paragraph 5(a) of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2015/589."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 71A was inserted by regulation 2 and paragraph 5(f) of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2015/589."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/888/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:17.090908+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."
}