{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-wales-scheme-contributions-amendment-order-2014/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-wales-scheme-contributions-amendment-order-2014/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2014/522",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension (Wales) Scheme (Contributions) (Amendment) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-wales-scheme-contributions-amendment-order-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Fire And Rescue Services, Wales\nPensions, Wales\nMade 4 March 2014\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 7 March 2014\nComing into force 1 April 2014\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the power conferred upon the Secretary of State by section 26(1) of the Fire Services Act 1947 and now vested in them, make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1947 c.41. Section 26 was repealed by section 52 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c.21). Sub-sections (1) to (5) of section 26 continue to have effect, in relation to Wales, for the purposes of the scheme established under that section as the Firemen’s Pension Scheme and set out in the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/129), by virtue of article 3 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Firefighters’ Pension Scheme) (Wales) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2918 (W.257)). Article 4 of that instrument changed the name of the Scheme to the Firefighters’ Pension (Wales) Scheme."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Secretary of State’s functions under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947 were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), in so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. The functions were subsequently transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/522/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:39:30.785939+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."
}