# The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Wales) Regulations 2023, Paragraph 6: Multiple beneficiaries: additional requirements

Extent: E+W

(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”).
(2) The scheme manager must—
(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
(b) provide a notice in respect of the deceased to each potentially eligible decision-maker, setting out—
(i) the information that would be required to be provided under regulation 4, if the notice were a remediable service statement, and
(ii) an explanation of the process set out at sub-paragraph (3).
(3) The potentially eligible decision-makers must—
(a) unanimously agree upon the eligible decision-maker (“the agreed eligible decision-maker”), and
(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).
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2023/961/schedule/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pensions-remediable-service-wales-regulations-2023/schedule/paragraph-6
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