{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-scotland-regulations-2023/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-scotland-regulations-2023/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2023/242",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-scotland-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Application and interpretation of Chapter 1",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter applies in relation to—\n(a) a pension credit member (“C”),\n(b) the corresponding pension debit member (“D”), and\n(c) the pension sharing agreement or pension sharing order by virtue of which C became a pension credit member in relation to D’s remediable service as a firefighter (the “relevant pension sharing arrangement”).\n(2) In this Chapter—\n...\n“C” means the pension credit member mentioned in paragraph (1)(a);\n“cash equivalent” means an amount calculated in accordance with regulations made under section 30 of WRPA 1999;\n“corresponding pension debit member” means the member referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of the definition of “pension credit member”;\n“D” means the corresponding debit member mentioned in paragraph (1)(b);\n“pension credit member” means a member of a firefighters‘ pension scheme who has rights under the scheme—\n(a)which are attributable (directly or indirectly) to a pension credit;\n(b)which arise by virtue of a pension sharing arrangement with a transfer day on or after 1 April 2015, and\n(c)the value of which was determined (to any extent) by reference to the value of benefits payable in respect of the remediable service as a firefighter of another member;\n“pension sharing agreement” means an agreement to which section 28 of WRPA 1999 applies in relation to a pension credit member and the corresponding pension debit member;\n“pension sharing order” means the order or provision by virtue of which section 29 of WRPA 1999 applies in relation to a pension credit member and the corresponding pension debit member;\n“relevant pension sharing arrangement” has the meaning given in paragraph (1)(c);\n“remediable relevant benefits” means the benefits or future benefits described in section 29(4) and (5) of WRPA 1999 to which D is entitled by virtue of remediable shareable rights;\n“remediable shareable rights” means D’s shareable rights secured by virtue of D’s remediable service as a firefighter during the period beginning on 1 April 2015 and ending on the earlier of—\n(a)the day before the transfer day, or\n(b)the last day of D’s remediable service as a firefighter;\n“shareable rights” has the meaning given in section 27(2) of WRPA 1999;\n“transfer day” means the day on which the relevant pension sharing arrangement takes effect;\n“valuation day” has the meaning given in section 29(7) of WRPA 1999.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(2) omitted (23.6.2025 with effect from 1.10.2023) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/113), regs. 1(2), 2(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(2) substituted (23.6.2025 with effect from 1.10.2023) by The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/113), regs. 1(2), 2(9)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In accordance with section 110(1) of the PSPJOA 2022, “WRPA 1999” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 19(7) of the PSPJOA 2022 for the meanings of “pension debit” and “pension credit”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/242/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:44:10.929580+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."
}