{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-10.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/ANNEX/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Compulsory retirement on grounds of efficiency",
  "text": "A regular firefighter who—\n(a) has attained the age of 50; and\n(b) has, or but for an election under article 59 or a failure to make election under article 46(3) or 58 would have, completed 25 years’ pensionable service,\nmay be required by the Board to retire on the grounds that his retention in the fire and rescue service would not be in the general interests of its efficiency.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme Pt. A art. 10 in operation at 1.4.2006, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/144/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/10",
    "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."
}