{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-england-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-england-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-4.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/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of “eligible to be an active member” of the NFPS",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of this Schedule, a person (P) is eligible to be an active member of the NFPS on a given date if on that date P is not in pensionable service under the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS and either—\n(a) P is in service as a firefighter which entitles P to be eligible to be an active member of the NFPS; or\n(b) P is on a gap in pensionable service not exceeding five years.\n(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1)(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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}