{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-53.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/53",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Receipt of transfer value",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4) and (6), the Board may accept a transfer value offered to it, in respect of a person who has become a regular firefighter, by the scheme managers of a superannuation scheme to which he was subject in previous service or employment (“the previous scheme”).\n(2) The person must have made a written request to the Board, not later than 12 months after the date on which he takes up employment, for the transfer value to be accepted.\n(3) A transfer value may not be accepted—\n(a) if one was accepted before 1st April 2006 in relation to the same transfer; or\n(b) where the person became a regular firefighter before 1st April 2006 if a transfer value could not have been accepted under Article 65A of the 1973 Scheme; or\n(c) if he had a guaranteed minimum in relation to a pension provided by the previous scheme unless—\n(i) the previous scheme is a club scheme, or\n(ii) the transfer value offered is of at least the required amount.\n(4) The required amount is A x B, where—\nA is the annual amount of the guaranteed minimum pension to which he would be entitled under article 78 if the transfer value were accepted, and\nB is the factor ascertained from the Table by reference to his age at the date on which he requested the Board to accept it.\nAge\nFactor\n29 or under\n8\n30 to 39\n9\n40 to 49\n10\n50 or over\n12\n(5) A person in respect of whom a transfer value is accepted is entitled to reckon as pensionable service a period calculated in accordance with Part II of Schedule 6.\n(6) A transfer value may not be accepted in respect of any pension credit rights.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme Pt. F art. 53 in operation at 1.4.2006, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 65A was inserted by paragraph 7 of Part II of Schedule 1 to S.R. 1979 No. 88 and amended by S.R. 1991 No. 312"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/144/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/53",
    "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."
}