{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-3/part-I/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-3/part-I/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/144",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/3/part/I/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph 2, the amount of an ordinary pension is the greater of—\n(a) half the amount of the base pension described in sub-paragraph (2); and\n(b) the amount of a requisite benefit pension calculated in accordance with Part V.\n(2) The base pension mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a) is—\n(a) where article 25(1)(a) applies, the higher tier ill-health pension to which the deceased would have been entitled had he retired with such a pension immediately before he died;\n(b) where article 25(1)(b) applies, the ordinary, short service or ill-health pension the deceased was receiving;\n(c) where article 25(1)(c) applies, the ill-health pension which the deceased would have been receiving if he had not ceased to be entitled to it; and\n(d) where article 25(1)(d) applies, the ill-health pension to which the deceased would have been entitled had he retired in circumstances entitling him to such a pension,\ndisregarding, in each case, the provisions for reduction contained in article 18(10) (commutation), article 20(9) (allocation) and Parts VI and VII of Schedule 2 (reduction of pension at state pensionable age and related to up-rating of widow’s pensions) but taking into account the provisions of Part IV of Schedule 2 (calculation of awards for part-time service).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 Pt. 1 para. 1 in operation at 1.4.2006, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/169",
      "affecting_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2024/130",
      "affecting_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes and Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/144/schedule/3/part/I/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:56.968954+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."
}