{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/part-III/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/part-III/paragraph-2.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/III/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes—\n(a) of paragraphs 2 and 3 of Part IV of Schedule 2;\n(b) of paragraph 1(2) of Part VI of Schedule 2; and\n(c) of paragraph 6 of Part I,\na period shall be computed in completed years.\n(2) For the purposes—\n(a) of Part II of Schedule 2;\n(b) of paragraph 4 of Part III of Schedule 2;\n(c) of Part V of Schedule 2;\n(d) of paragraph 4(l) of Part I,\na period shall be computed in completed years, except that the period in years by which a period exceeds 20 years shall be computed in completed half-years.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph 5 of Part I a period shall be computed in completed years, except that—\n(a) half the deceased’s pre-1972 pensionable service shall for the purposes of paragraph 5(l)(b) of that Part; and\n(b) the period in excess of the relevant period shall for the purposes of paragraph 5(2)(b) of that Part,\nbe computed in completed half-years.\n(4) For the purposes—\n(a) of paragraph 2 of Part II of Schedule 3; and\n(b) of paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 4,\na period shall be computed in completed years, except that insofar as a period exceeds 20 years it shall be computed in completed half-years.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 Pt. 3 para. 2 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/III/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}