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Paragraph 7 Entitlement to two pensions

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(1)

Subject to paragraph (6), a firefighter member who—

(a)

satisfies an eligibility condition; and

(b)

on taking up a different role within the authority or becoming entitled to a different rate of pay in the member’s existing role, suffers a reduction in the amount of pensionable pay such that the amount to be taken into account in the calculation of the pension to which the member will be entitled at normal retirement age is less than it would otherwise have been,

is entitled to two pensions.

(2)

The pensions are to be calculated as mentioned in paragraphs (3) and (4) and become payable as mentioned in paragraph (5).

(3)

The amount of the first pension is that found by multiplying the member’s pensionable service up to (but not including) the day on which paragraph (1) first applies to the member by the final pensionable pay to which the member would have been entitled had the member retired on that day, and dividing the resultant amount by sixty.

(4)

The amount of the second pension is that found by multiplying the member’s pensionable service on and after the day on which paragraph (1) first applies to the member by the final pensionable pay to which the member is entitled on that day, and dividing the resultant amount by sixty.

(5)

Subject to paragraph (6), the pensions become payable on the date on which a pension would have become payable to the member in whichever of the circumstances referred to in rules 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 applies in the member’s case.

(6)

A member who is entitled to two pensions under this rule may, by written notice to the member’s employing authority, before leaving that employment, instruct the authority to make a single award which must be calculated in accordance with paragraph (7).

(7)

The single award under paragraph (6) is to be calculated by—

(a)

multiplying the aggregate of the periods of pensionable service used for the purposes of paragraphs (3) and (4) by the final pensionable pay used for the purposes of paragraph (4), and

(b)

dividing the resultant amount by sixty.

(8)

If the member makes a contributions election, the member is entitled to a single pension, calculated as mentioned in paragraph (3); and that pension must be treated for the purposes of rule 3(4) to (6) and rule 4 as if it were a deferred pension to which the member was entitled under rule 3.