{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-schemes-amendment-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-29",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-schemes-amendment-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Amendment of Part 12",
  "text": "In Part 12 (transfers into and out of the Scheme)—\n(a) in rule 1 (interpretation of Part 12), after “In this Part–” insert—\n““final salary benefit” means benefit accrued under a final salary scheme as defined in section 37 (general interpretation) of the 2013 Act;”;\n(b) in rule 2 (entitlement to transfer value payment)—\n(i) in paragraph (2), for “A firefighter” insert “Subject to paragraph (2A), a firefighter”; and\n(ii) after paragraph (2), insert—\n“(2A) A transition member (T), who is a connected member of this Scheme or has received a lower tier ill-health pension under the 2015 Scheme, is not entitled to require the payment of a transfer value in respect of the rights to benefits that have accrued to or in respect of T under this Scheme.”;\n(c) in rule 8 (applications for acceptance of transfer value payment from another scheme), after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(4) A person who is a protected member of this Scheme, or a person who becomes an active member of the 2015 scheme, may apply for a transfer value payment from another public service pension scheme which is a final salary scheme, or includes final salary benefit, to be accepted by the authority for the purposes of this Scheme.”;\n(d) in rule 9 (procedure for applications under rule 8)—\n(i) in paragraph (2), for “paragraph (4)” substitute “paragraphs (4) and (5),”; and\n(ii) after paragraph (4), insert—\n“(5) Where the application is made by a person who joins this Scheme as a firefighter member (other than as a special firefighter member) the application must be made within one year of the person becoming a firefighter member of this Scheme or within one year of the person becoming an active member of the 2015 Scheme, as the case may be.”; and\n(e) in rule 10 (acceptance of transfer value payments)—\n(i) in paragraph (1), for “paragraph (3)” substitute “paragraphs (3) and (4)”; and\n(ii) after paragraph (3), insert—\n“(4) Where the application under rule 8 is made by a person to whom paragraph (4) of that rule applies, paragraphs (2) and (3) (limit on maximum amount of pensionable service that can be accrued) of rule 2 of Part 10 do not apply to that transfer value payment and the authority must accept the transfer value payment unless paragraph (3) of this rule applies.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/141/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:30:04.249898+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."
}