{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-2023/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-2023/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/843",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requirements relating to remediable service statements",
  "text": "(1) The scheme manager must provide a remediable service statement in respect of a remedy member (“M”) in accordance with—\n(a) section 29 of PSPJOA 2022,\n(b) any Treasury directions made under section 29(6) of that Act, and\n(c) this regulation.\n(2) The scheme manager must provide a remediable service statement in respect of M—\n(a) on or before the relevant date,\n(b) where M is, in relation to their remediable service as a firefighter, for the time being—\n(i) an active member, at least once in each year ending with the anniversary of the relevant date;\n(ii) a deferred member, within three months of receipt of a written request by the member, and\n(c) where M is a deferred choice member, as soon as is reasonably practicable following receipt of notification—\n(i) under regulation 13(2) that M intends to claim benefits in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter, or\n(ii) that M has died.\n(3) The remediable service statement must be provided—\n(a) to M, or\n(b) where—\n(i) M is deceased, and\n(ii) the eligible decision-maker is a person other than the scheme manager,\nto the person who is for the time being the eligible decision-maker in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter under the Schedule.\n(4) The remediable service statement must include—\n(a) where the scheme manager has determined that any information to be provided in connection with M’s remediable service as a firefighter must be communicated in a particular form and manner, information about that form and manner;\n(b) where M is an immediate choice member, information about the irrevocability of an immediate choice decision;\n(c) where M is a deferred choice member, information about the circumstances in which a deferred choice decision is revocable, and the circumstances in which it is irrevocable.\n(5) For further provision about—\n(a) what a remediable service statement must include, see—\n(i) section 29(5) of the PSPJOA 2022;\n(ii) direction 20(1) of the PSP Directions 2022;\n(b) when a remediable service statement must be combined with a benefit information statement provided under section 14 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013, see direction 20(2) of the PSP Directions 2022.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 29(10) of the PSPJOA 2022 for the meaning of “the relevant date”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In accordance with section 29(9) of the PSPJO Act, only one request under regulation 3(2)(b)(ii) may be made during any period of 12 months."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/843/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:42:09.982131+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."
}