# The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007, Paragraph 14: Short service award

Extent: N.I.

(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—
(a) retires on or after normal pension age; and
(b) is not entitled to any other pension or gratuity under this Part.
(2) A person to whom this article applies becomes entitled on retiring—
(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
(b) in any other case, to a short service lump sum of an amount equal to the aggregate of his pension contributions.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/144/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-14
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