{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-18.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/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Tapered protection: members of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS on scheme closing date",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if sub-paragraph (2) or sub-paragraph (3) applies.\n(2) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of the 1992 Scheme or was an active member, or eligible to be an active member, of the NFPS on the scheme closing date;\n(b) on 31 March 2012 P was an active member of the 1992 Scheme or was an active member, or eligible to be an active member, of the NFPS; and\n(c) if P—\n(i) is an active member of the 1992 Scheme P would, unless P dies, reach normal pension age under the 1992 Scheme during the period beginning with 2 April 2022 and ending with 31 March 2026; or\n(ii) is an active member, or eligible to be an active member, of the NFPS, P would, unless P dies, reach normal pension age under the NFPS during the period beginning with 2 April 2022 and ending with 31 March 2026.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies if P—\n(a) was an active member of an existing scheme (other than the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS), or of an existing public body pension scheme (“P’s transitional scheme”) on 31 March 2012;\n(b) was an active member of the NFPS on the scheme closing date; and\n(c) would, unless P dies, reach normal pension age—\n(i) under the NFPS during the period beginning with 2 April 2022 and ending with 31 March 2026, and\n(ii) under P’s transitional scheme on or before 1 September 2025.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 18 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/18",
    "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."
}