# The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, Regulation 3: Amendments to the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2015


(1) Regulation 75 (annual rate of ill-health awards) of the 2015 Regulations is amended as follows.
(2) After paragraph (3A) insert—
“(3B) Where regulation 74(2B) applies and the determination in regulation 74(2C) is that a lower tier ill-health pension or a higher tier ill-health pension would have been payable on 31 March 2022, the scheme manager must—
(a) calculate the annual rate of lower tier ill-health pension and (if applicable) higher tier ill-health pension that would be payable under paragraphs (2) and (3) as if regulation 74(2B) did not apply;
(b) calculate the annual rate of lower tier ill-health pension and (if applicable) higher tier ill-health pension that would have been payable to the member as at 31 March 2022 under rule B3 (ill-health awards) of the 1992 Scheme; and
(c) where the combined amount calculated under sub-paragraph (b) exceeds the combined amount calculated under sub-paragraph (a) adjust the annual rates payable under paragraph (2) and (3) to those calculated under sub-paragraph (b).
(3C) Regulations 77 (review of ill-health award or early payment of retirement pension) and 78 (consequences of review) apply to any amounts payable as a result of regulation 75(3B)(c).
(3D) Where regulation 74(2B) applies if, after an ill-health award becomes payable under this scheme, a transfer value payment is made under rule F9 (payment of transfer values) of the 1992 Scheme in respect of the member’s rights under that scheme and the transfer relates to a period of service included as qualifying service in relation to that member’s retirement account, the scheme manager must deduct from the amount of ill-health award an amount in respect of service in the 1992 Scheme which is equal to the value represented by that transfer value payment.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/343/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-3
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