{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/part-III/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-9/part-III/paragraph-3.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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a period is to be computed in completed years a part of a year shall be ignored, and where a period is to be computed in completed half-years\n(a) a part of a year less than a half shall be ignored; and\n(b) a part of a year exceeding a half shall be treated as a half.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 Pt. 3 para. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}