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  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
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  "text": "In this Scheme a reference to a participating period of relevant employment is a reference to a period of employed contributor’s employment after 5th April 1961 and before state pensionable age other than —\n(a) service in the armed forces; and\n(b) non-participating employment at the end of which no payment in lieu of contributions fell to be made,\nand for the purposes of this paragraph a period of employed contributor’s employment or of non-participating employment shall be treated as having continued during periods of holiday and temporary incapacity for work and similar temporary interruptions.",
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