{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/part-I/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/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/9/part/I/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraphs 2 to 6 have effect for the calculation of a surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s ordinary pension where—\n(a) on lst July 1973 the deceased was serving as a regular firefighter or was entitled to a pension other than a deferred pension; and\n(b) no election under paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 3 (flat-rate pension) has effect; and\n(c) no payments election was made.\n(2) A payments election is an election under Article 52, 53 or 54 of the 1973 Scheme made—\n(a) where before lst April 1972 he last paid pension contributions at a rate related to 5% of his pensionable pay, for the purpose of avoiding the application of paragraphs 2 and 3 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the 1973 scheme; and\n(b) in any other case, for the purpose of avoiding the application of paragraph 3 of that Part.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 Pt. 1 para. 1 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/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."
}