{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-2023/regulation-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-2023/regulation-50.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/50",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "M’s entitlement to ill-health benefits to be treated as equivalent in M’s alternative scheme",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in relation to an immediate choice member (“M”) who, during the period beginning on 1st April 2015 and ending on 31st March 2022 was—\n(a) a 2006 IHR member;\n(b) a 2014 IHR member.\n(2) For the purposes of PSPJOA 2022 and these Regulations, M is to be treated as meeting the requirements for an equivalent ill-health award in M’s alternative scheme.\n(3) In paragraph (2), “equivalent ill-health award in M’s alternative scheme” means, where M is entitled to—\n(a) a lower tier award under the 2006 scheme, a lower tier award under the reformed scheme;\n(b) a higher tier award under the 2006 scheme, a higher tier award under the reformed scheme;\n(c) a lower tier award under the reformed scheme, and—\n(i) M’s legacy scheme is the 1992 scheme, a lower tier award under that scheme;\n(ii) M’s legacy scheme is the 2006 scheme, a lower tier award under that scheme;\n(d) a higher tier award under the reformed scheme, and—\n(i) M’s legacy scheme is the 1992 scheme, a higher tier award under that scheme;\n(ii) M’s legacy scheme is the 2006 scheme, a higher tier award under that scheme.\n(4) No question relating to M’s entitlement to ill-health benefits that has been decided following referral to an IQMP is to be re-opened by virtue of any provision of PSPJOA 2022 or of these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 50 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/843/regulation/50",
    "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."
}