{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-90.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/78",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters' Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/90",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Reduction in pensions in cases of wide age disparity",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if on the death of a member of this scheme, a surviving partner's pension is payable to a person who is more than 12 years younger than the member.\n(2) The annual rate of that pension is reduced by the lower of—\n(a) 50% of the amount of the annual rate of the pension so calculated; or\n(b) 2.5 × ( N − 12 ) %\nwhere N is the number of whole years by which the surviving partner is younger than the member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/78/regulation/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:31.445177+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."
}