{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/paragraph-5.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/9/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The amount mentioned in paragraph 3(2) is that of the deceased’s ill-health or notional pension calculated in accordance with Part III of Schedule 2 but—\n(a) by reference to his weighted relevant pensionable service where it does not exceed 20 years; or\n(b) where his weighted relevant pensionable service exceeds 20 years, by reference, subject to paragraph 6, to the total of his relevant pensionable service and half his pre-1972 pensionable service,\ninstead of by reference to his pensionable service.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) the deceased’s relevant pensionable service is his pensionable service other than pre-1972 pensionable service; and\n(b) his weighted relevant pensionable service is what his relevant pensionable service would be if so much of it as exceeds the relevant period were counted twice, the relevant period being the period, if any, by which his pre-1972 pensionable service falls short of 20 years.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 Pt. 1 para. 5 in operation at 1.4.2006, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/169",
      "affecting_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/144/schedule/9/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}