Paragraph 3 I1

Where a person is in receipt of an ordinary, short service or ill-health pension for the purposes of which he is entitled to reckon pensionable service by virtue of a period of employment as a regular firefighter which is a participating period of relevant employment (“the participating period”), the unsecured portion of the pension shall, in respect of any period beyond state pensionable age, be reduced in accordance with this paragraph.

The annual rate of the reduction is that of the graduated retirement benefit which would, on the assumption that the person retired from regular employment on attaining state pensionable age, be payable to him in return for a payment in lieu of contributions in respect of the whole of the participating period, whether or not such a payment was in fact made.