{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firemens-pension-scheme-amendment-order-1990/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firemens-pension-scheme-amendment-order-1990/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1841",
  "legislation_title": "The Firemen’s Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firemens-pension-scheme-amendment-order-1990",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Elections in respect of protected benefits",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to a person—\n(a) to whom a protected benefit is being paid or may become payable, and\n(b) who is placed in a worse position than he would have been in if a variation made to the 1973 Scheme by virtue of article 2 (“the relevant variation”) had not applied in relation to the protected benefit.\n(2) A protected benefit is one which is being paid or may become payable by a fire authority, under the 1973 Scheme, to or in respect of a person who was employed as a regular fireman but ceased to be so employed, or died, before 1st October 1990.\n(3) A person to whom this article applies may, by giving written notice to the fire authority within 3 months after 1st October 1990, elect that the relevant variation shall not apply in relation to the protected benefit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.10.1990, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1841/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:07:15.491777+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."
}