{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-wales-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-wales-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2023/961",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Wales) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-wales-regulations-2023",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Multiple beneficiaries: additional requirements",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where, under paragraphs 4(3)(a) and 5(b), the eligible decision-maker is to be agreed upon either by multiple eligible adult survivors, or, as the case may be, multiple parents or guardians of eligible child survivors (“the potentially eligible decision-makers”).\n(2) The scheme manager must—\n(a) seek to identify all such potentially eligible decision-makers and inform them of the need to agree who is the eligible-decision maker in respect of the deceased in accordance with this paragraph, and\n(b) provide a notice in respect of the deceased to each potentially eligible decision-maker, setting out—\n(i) the information that would be required to be provided under regulation 4, if the notice were a remediable service statement, and\n(ii) an explanation of the process set out at sub-paragraph (3).\n(3) The potentially eligible decision-makers must—\n(a) unanimously agree upon the eligible decision-maker (“the agreed eligible decision-maker”), and\n(b) communicate the identity of the agreed eligible decision-maker to the scheme manager collectively, in writing, within 6 months of receiving the notice mentioned at sub-paragraph (2)(b).\n(4) If the scheme manager does not receive notice in accordance with sub-paragraph (3)(b) above, the scheme manager becomes the eligible decision-maker immediately after the date for notice in that sub-paragraph expires.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 6 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2023/961/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:03:14.591814+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."
}