Regulation 6 Amendments to the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2015

(1)

Schedule 2 (transitional provisions) to the 2015 Regulations is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 1 (interpretation)—

(a)

in the definition of “closing date”, in paragraph (c), for “member, or” to the end substitute—

“member,

(ii)
if the member is a full protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS, 31 March 2022, or

(iii)
if the member is not a protected member of one of those schemes, the scheme closing date;”;

(b)

in the definition of “transition date”, for “member, and” to the end substitute—

“member,

(b)
if the member is a full protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS, 1 April 2022, and

(c)
if the member is not a protected member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS, the day after the scheme closing date, or, if later, the day the person ceased to be a protected member of that scheme.”

(3)

For sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 3 (meaning of “tapered protection closing date”) substitute—

“(3)
The tapered protection closing date for a tapered protection member of the NFPS to whom paragraph 9(5) or 21 applies is—

(a)
31 March 2022; or

(b)
an earlier date determined by the scheme manager.”

(4)

For sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 9 (full protection members of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS) substitute—

“(2)
P ceases to be a full protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS, as the case may be—

(a)
on 31 March 2022; or

(b)
if earlier, when P ceases to be in pensionable service under that scheme and ceases to be eligible to be an active member of the NFPS, unless sub-paragraph (3) or (4) applies.”

(5)

In paragraph 31(2)(a) (pensionable service under the NFPS), omit the words from “or if T returns to pensionable service” to the end.

(6)

Omit paragraphs 37 (authority determines the entitlement of a member of the NFPS to an ill-health award) and 38 (authority determines the entitlement of a member of the 1992 Scheme to an ill-health award).