Article 4 Transitional provisions

This article applies to an amendment made by article 2 and the Schedule to this Order which applies in relation to the pensions which are being paid or become payable under the Scheme to or in respect of persons who, having served in an employment, service in which qualifies persons to participate in the benefits for which the Scheme provides, have ceased to serve in that employment before 1 July 2013 (whether or not they have subsequently recommenced any such service) or have died before that date.

Any person who is placed in a worse position than that person would have been in if an amendment to which this article applies had not been made in relation to any pension which is being paid or may become payable to that person may elect that the amendment is not to apply in relation to that pension.

Any such election is to be made by giving written notice to the relevant fire and rescue authority within the period of 12 months starting with the date on which this Order comes into force.