Paragraph 11

in article 86 (Payments and transfers into Firefighters’ Pension Fund), for paragraph (5) substitute—

“(5)

In respect of each firefighter employed by the Board who retires with an entitlement to immediate payment of a lower tier ill-health pension under article 12, the Board shall transfer into the FPF such amount as shall be determined and notified to it by the Department as the lower tier ill-health charge applicable in respect of that pension.”; and

in article 87 (transfers from Firefighters; Pension Fund), for paragraphs (4) and (5), substitute—

“(4)

Where a person’s entitlement to higher tier ill-health pension or a lower tier ill-health pension has wholly and permanently ceased under any provision of Part 9, paragraph (4) or (5) of article 50 (as the case may be) shall be disregarded in his case (to the extent that it remain to be compiled with); and the Board shall transfer from the FPF to any other fund maintained by it an amount equal to the aggregate of the instalments that have been transferred to the FPF in respect of the pension entitlement to which has ceased.”.