# The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007, Paragraph 2

Extent: N.I.

(1) For the purposes—
(a) of paragraphs 2 and 3 of Part IV of Schedule 2;
(b) of paragraph 1(2) of Part VI of Schedule 2; and
(c) of paragraph 6 of Part I,
a period shall be computed in completed years.
(2) For the purposes—
(a) of Part II of Schedule 2;
(b) of paragraph 4 of Part III of Schedule 2;
(c) of Part V of Schedule 2;
(d) of paragraph 4(l) of Part I,
a 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.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph 5 of Part I a period shall be computed in completed years, except that—
(a) half the deceased’s pre-1972 pensionable service shall for the purposes of paragraph 5(l)(b) of that Part; and
(b) the period in excess of the relevant period shall for the purposes of paragraph 5(2)(b) of that Part,
be computed in completed half-years.
(4) For the purposes—
(a) of paragraph 2 of Part II of Schedule 3; and
(b) of paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 4,
a period shall be computed in completed years, except that insofar as a period exceeds 20 years it shall be computed in completed half-years.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/144/schedule/9/part/III/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/part-III/paragraph-2
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