{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/19",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Full protection: members of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS on scheme closing date",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if sub-paragraph (2) or sub-paragraph (3) applies.\n(2) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of the 1992 Scheme or an active member, or eligible to be an active member, of the NFPS on the scheme closing date;\n(b) P was an active member of the 1992 Scheme or an active member, or eligible to be an active member, of the NFPS on 31st March 2012; and\n(c) where P was on 31st March 2012—\n(i) an active member of the 1992 Scheme, P had on 1st April 2012—\n(aa) reached age 45; or\n(bb) reached age 40 and had at least 20 years’ pensionable service under that scheme; or\n(ii) an active member or eligible to be an active member of the NFPS, P had on 1st April 2012 reached age 50.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of an existing scheme (other than the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS) or an existing public body pension scheme (“P’s transitional scheme”) on 31st March 2012;\n(b) P was an active member or eligible to be an active member of the NFPS on the scheme closing date; and\n(c) P would, unless P dies, reach normal pension age under the NFPS and P’s transitional scheme on or before 1st April 2022.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 12 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/19/schedule/2/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:38.589226+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."
}