{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-schemes-and-compensation-scheme-wales-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-schemes-and-compensation-scheme-wales-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2020/1511",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes and Compensation Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-schemes-and-compensation-scheme-wales-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Increases to split pensions: the 1992 Scheme",
  "text": "In Part B (personal awards), in rule B5A (entitlement to two pensions)—\n(a) in paragraph (2), for “exceeds” substitute “is lower than”;\n(b) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) The amount of the first pension determined under paragraph (3) or (4B)(a), is increased for each year before the firefighter’s last day of service by an amount equivalent to that which would apply if the first pension were a pension in payment commencing from the day after the date of the firefighter’s last day of service at the higher rate of pay, to which the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 applied.”;\n(c) in paragraph (6), after “B1,” insert “B1A,”;\n(d) in paragraph (9), for “paragraph (3)” substitute “paragraph (4)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule B5A was inserted by article 2 of, and paragraph 1 of the Schedule to, S.I. 2009/1226 (W. 109) and was amended by S.I. 2014/3242 (W. 329), 2015/1016 (W. 71) and S.I. 2018/577 (W. 104)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1511/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:49.701685+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."
}