{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-england-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-england-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2848",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-england-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Tapered protection members of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) to whom any of paragraphs 18 to 21 applies is a tapered protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS.\n(1A) Where P was a full protection member of the 1992 Scheme and after retiring from pensionable service in this scheme, became entitled to a continuous service pension under rule B1A, or an ordinary pension under rule B1 or a short service award under rule B2 or a continued pension under rule B2A of that scheme, P ceases to be eligible to be a tapered protection member of the NFPS.\n(2) P ceases to be a tapered protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS on whichever of the following days occurs first—\n(a) P’s tapered protection closing date; or\n(b) the day on which P ceases to be in pensionable service under the 1992 Scheme or if later, ceases to be eligible to be in pensionable service under the NFPS unless sub-paragraph (3) or sub-paragraph (4) applies.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) before P’s transition date P returns to service which is pensionable under the NFPS from service which is pensionable under an existing scheme or an existing public body pension scheme; and\n(b) P would have been a protected member of that existing scheme or existing public body pension scheme had P re-entered service which is pensionable under that scheme on the date P returns to service which is pensionable under the NFPS.\n(4) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) before P’s transition date P returns to service which is pensionable under the NFPS otherwise than from service which is pensionable under an existing scheme or an existing public body pension scheme; and\n(b) P returns to service which is pensionable under the NFPS after a gap in service not exceeding five years.\n(5) For the purpose of paragraph (4)(b), after the scheme closing date, P is not on a gap in service while P is in pensionable public service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 15(1A) inserted (1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/589), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 15 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2848/schedule/2/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:58:36.876688+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."
}