{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/622",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Full protection: members of an existing scheme",
  "text": "This paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of an existing scheme (other than the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS) or an existing public body pension scheme on the closing date for that scheme;\n(b) P was an active member of an existing scheme or an existing public body pension scheme (“P’s transitional scheme”) on 31 March 2012;\n(c) P begins service which is pensionable under the NFPS not more than five years after leaving pensionable service under an existing scheme other than the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS;\n(d) on the date that P begins service which is pensionable under the NFPS, P would have been a fully protected member of the existing scheme referred to in sub-paragraph (c) had P re-entered service which is pensionable under that scheme on that date; and\n(e) P would, unless P dies, reach normal pension age under the NFPS and P’s transitional scheme on or before 1 April 2022.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 13 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/622/schedule/2/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:35:17.892397+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."
}