{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-14.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/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Short service award",
  "text": "(1) This article applies, unless immediately before his retirement an election under article 59 not to pay pension contributions had effect, to a regular firefighter who—\n(a) retires on or after normal pension age; and\n(b) is not entitled to any other pension or gratuity under this Part.\n(2) A person to whom this article applies becomes entitled on retiring—\n(a) if he is entitled to reckon at least 2 years’ pensionable service or if a transfer payment in respect of his rights under a personal pension scheme has been made to the scheme, to a short service pension calculated in accordance with Part II of Schedule 2; and\n(b) in any other case, to a short service lump sum of an amount equal to the aggregate of his pension contributions.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme Pt. B art. 14 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/14",
    "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."
}