{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2023/133",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-regulations-northern-ireland-2023",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Application and interpretation of Chapter 1",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter applies to and in respect of a member (“M”) with opted-out service in an employment or office in relation to M’s legacy scheme.\n(2) In this Chapter—\n“opted-out service decision-maker” means the person who may make an opted-out service election in accordance with regulation 6(2);\n“relevant opted-out service” means the service referred to in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See sections 5(7) (read with section 4) and 36 of the PSPJOA 2022 for the meaning of relevant opted-out service in relation to a Chapter 1 legacy scheme (such as the FPS and NFPS)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2023/133/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:31:03.724942+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."
}