# The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/343/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-6
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