{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2022/343",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-amendment-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2 (transitional provisions) to the 2015 Regulations is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 1 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of “closing date”, in paragraph (c), for “member, or” to the end substitute—\n“member,\n(ii) if the member is a full protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS, 31 March 2022, or\n(iii) if the member is not a protected member of one of those schemes, the scheme closing date;”;\n(b) in the definition of “transition date”, for “member, and” to the end substitute—\n“member,\n(b) if the member is a full protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS, 1 April 2022, and\n(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.”\n(3) For sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 3 (meaning of “tapered protection closing date”) substitute—\n“(3) The tapered protection closing date for a tapered protection member of the NFPS to whom paragraph 9(5) or 21 applies is—\n(a) 31 March 2022; or\n(b) an earlier date determined by the scheme manager.”\n(4) For sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 9 (full protection members of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS) substitute—\n“(2) P ceases to be a full protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS, as the case may be—\n(a) on 31 March 2022; or\n(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.”\n(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.\n(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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/343/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:31.598294+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."
}