{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-amendment-order-2013/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-amendment-order-2013/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2013/1577",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-amendment-order-2013",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Order 2007",
  "text": "In Part 2 (scheme membership, cessation and retirement) —\n(a) in rule 1 (scheme membership)—\n(i) in paragraph (2), for “rule 6(4)” substitute “rule 6”; and\n(ii) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) Where a person who—\n(a) having taken up employment as a firefighter before 6 April 2006;\n(b) having continued in such employment until the firefighter’s automatic enrolment date;\n(c) having made an election not to pay pension contributions under the 1992 Scheme or not being eligible to be a member of the 1992 Scheme; and\n(d) having not otherwise elected to become a member of this Scheme,\nis automatically enrolled in this Scheme, that enrolment shall constitute an election to become a firefighter member of this Scheme.”;\n(b) in rule 5 (election not to make pension contributions), after paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1ZA) A written notice given under paragraph (1) of this rule must be signed by the firefighter member or, where the notice is in electronic format, it must include a statement confirming that that person personally submitted the notice.”; and\n(c) in rule 6 (rejoining the Scheme)—\n(i) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) A person who has made a contributions election may cancel it by giving a signed written notice to the authority or, where the notice is in electronic format, it must include a statement confirming that that person personally submitted the notice.”;\n(ii) after paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) Where a person who has made a contributions election is subsequently automatically enrolled or re-enrolled in the Scheme, that enrolment or re-enrolment shall constitute a cancellation of their contributions election.”;\n(iii) omit paragraphs (2) and (3); and\n(iv) in paragraph (4), after “is received”, insert—\n“or, in the case of a firefighter member who has been automatically enrolled or re-enrolled, with effect from the automatic enrolment or re-enrolment date (as the case may be)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2013/1577/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:42:36.447909+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."
}