# The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2015, Paragraph 15: Tapered protection members of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS

Extent: E+W

(1) A person (P) to whom any of paragraphs 18 to 21 applies is a tapered protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS.
(1A) Where P was a full protection member of the 1992 Scheme and, after retiring from pensionable service in this scheme, became entitled to a continuous service pension under rule B1A, to an ordinary pension under rule B1, to a short service award under rule B2 or to a continued pension under rule B2A of that scheme, P ceases to be eligible to be a tapered protection member of the NFPS.
(2) P ceases to be a tapered protection member of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS on whichever of the following days occurs first—
(a) P’s tapered protection closing date; or
(b) the day on which P ceases to be in pensionable service under the 1992 Scheme or if later, ceases to be eligible to be in pensionable service under the NFPS, unless sub-paragraph (3) or sub-paragraph (4) applies.
(3) This sub-paragraph applies if—
(a) before P’s transition date P returns to service which is pensionable under the NFPS from service which is pensionable under an existing scheme or an existing public body pension scheme; and
(b) P would have been a protected member of that existing scheme or existing public body pension scheme had P re-entered service which is pensionable under that scheme on the date P returns to service which is pensionable under the NFPS.
(4) This sub-paragraph applies if—
(a) before P’s transition date P returns to service which is pensionable under the NFPS otherwise than from service which is pensionable under an existing scheme or an existing public body pension scheme; and
(b) P returns to service which is pensionable under the NFPS after a gap in service not exceeding five years.
(5) For the purpose of paragraph (4)(b), after the scheme closing date, P is not on a gap in service while P is in pensionable public service.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/622/schedule/2/paragraph/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-15
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