# The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007, Paragraph 1

Extent: N.I.

(1) Paragraphs 2 to 6 have effect for the calculation of a surviving spouse’s or civil partner’s ordinary pension where—
(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
(b) no election under paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 3 (flat-rate pension) has effect; and
(c) no payments election was made.
(2) A payments election is an election under Article 52, 53 or 54 of the 1973 Scheme made—
(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
(b) in any other case, for the purpose of avoiding the application of paragraph 3 of that Part.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/144/schedule/9/part/I/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/part-I/paragraph-1
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