{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“beneficiary” means a person who has become entitled to receive any death benefit;\n“child”, except in the term “eligible child”, means a person under the age of 18;\n“death benefit” means a benefit payable under a firefighters’ pension scheme in relation to a member of that scheme who has died;\n“election” means an opted-out service election, an immediate choice decision or a deferred choice decision;\n“eligible decision-maker” means the person who may make—\n(a)an opted-out service election in accordance with regulation 6(2)(b);\n(b)an immediate choice decision in accordance with regulation 8(2)(b);\n(c)a deferred choice decision in accordance with regulation 12(2)(b);\n“surviving partner” has the meaning given in regulation 76 of the 2014 Regulations.\n(2) In this Schedule, a reference to—\n(a) a beneficiary is a reference to—\n(i) a person who is a beneficiary of death benefits in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter, or\n(ii) where the benefits in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter are legacy scheme benefits, a person who would be a beneficiary of death benefits in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter if the benefits in relation to that service were reformed scheme benefits;\n(b) an eligible child is a reference to an eligible child of M;\n(c) M is a reference to the remedy member in respect of whose remediable service as a firefighter an election may be made;\n(d) a surviving partner is a reference to a surviving partner in relation to M.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 1(2)(c) substituted (9.2.2024) by The Police and Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/59), regs. 1(2), 3(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1 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/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}