Paragraph 1 Interpretation of Part

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 1 Annex A1 inserted by Firefighters’ Pension Scheme 2012 art. 4
Sch. 1 para. 2(1) words substituted by General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) 2010 Sch. 3 para. 15
Sch. 1 Pt. 13A inserted by Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order 2007 2010 Sch.
Sch. 1 Pt. 13B inserted by Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order 2007 2010 Sch. para. 4
Sch. 1 Pt. 7 rule 2(2) word substituted by Firefighters' Pension Scheme Order 2007 2008 Sch. para. 7(a)(i)
Sch. 1 Pt. 7 rule 2(3)(4) substituted for Sch. 1 Pt. 7 rule 2(3) by Firefighters' Pension Scheme Order 2007 2008 Sch. para. 7(a)(ii)
Sch. 1 Pt. 7 rule 3(2) substituted by Firefighters' Pension Scheme Order 2007 2008 Sch. para. 7(b)
Sch. 1 Pt. 13B omitted by Fire Reform (Pensions Amendments) 2013 art. 20
Sch. 1 Pt. 7 rule 4 words omitted by Fire Reform (Pensions Amendments) 2013 art. 15
sch. 1 Pt. 7 rule 3(3) words substituted by Firefighters’ Pension Schemes 2019 art. 3(7)
Sch. 1 Annex 3 inserted by Firefighters’ Pension Scheme 2014 Sch. para. 17
Sch. 1 Annex AB1 inserted by Firefighters’ Pension Scheme 2014 Sch. para. 15
Sch. 1 Annex ZA inserted by Firefighters’ Pension Scheme 2014 Sch. para. 13

In this Part–

“the 1996 Act” means the Reserve Forces Act 1996^f1;
“forces period” means the period during which a person undertakes relevant service in the reserve forces;
“former authority”, in relation to a reservist, means the authority by which the reservist was employed immediately before the reservist’s forces period began;
“qualifying injury” means an injury, received by a person in the performance of the person’s duties as a firefighter, which is not wholly or mainly due to the person’s own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct;
“relevant service in the reserve forces” means service in the forces specified in section 1(2) of the 1996 Act–
1. (a)
  
  in pursuance of a training obligation under Part 3 of that Act; or
2. (b)
  
  by virtue of a call out for permanent service or a recall under the Reserve Forces Act 1980^f2 or Part 7 of the 1996 Act; and
“reservist” means a person who, immediately before a forces period, was a firefighter.

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