{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-scotland-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-scotland-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-1.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": "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 following the death of a member of that scheme;\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 as mentioned in regulation 6(2)(b);\n(b)an immediate choice decision as mentioned in regulation 8(2)(b);\n(c)a deferred choice ... decision as mentioned in regulation 12(2)(b).\n...\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) a surviving adult is a reference to a surviving adult in relation to M.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. para. 1(1) 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(17)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. para. 1(1) substituted (3.10.2025) by The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/187), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. para. 1(1) 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(17)(a)(iii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in sch. para. 1(1) substituted (3.10.2025) by The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/187), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(a)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in sch. para. 1(1) 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(17)(a)(iii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in sch. para. 1(1) omitted (3.10.2025) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/187), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(a)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in sch. para. 1(1) 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(17)(a)(iii)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in sch. para. 1(1) omitted (3.10.2025) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/187), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in sch. para. 1(2)(a) substituted (3.10.2025) by The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/187), regs. 1(2), 2(11)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/242/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}