# The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007, Paragraph 11A: Special member’s ordinary pension


(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this article applies to a member of this Scheme who is a special member and who satisfies one of the special eligibility conditions and retires or has retired.
(1A) Subject to paragraph (2), this article applies to a connected special member of this Scheme who satisfies a special eligibility condition and retires from scheme employment in the 2015 Scheme having reached normal retirement age.
(2) This article does not apply to a special firefighter member whose notice of retirement states that he is retiring for the purpose of taking up employment as a firefighter with a fire and rescue authority in England, Scotland or Wales.
(3) Where a special member to whom this article applies—
(a) is not entitled to an ill health award under article 12 or 12A;
(b) attains or has attained the age of 55; and
(c) retires,
he is entitled to a special member’s ordinary pension.
(4) A special member who is not entitled to a special member’s ordinary pension under paragraph (3) or an ill health award under article 12 or 12A is entitled to a deferred pension.
(5) Where a special member to whom this article applies becomes entitled to a special member’s ordinary pension in respect of service as a retained firefighter, his special member’s ordinary pension shall be calculated by multiplying his final pensionable pay by his special pensionable retained service and dividing the resultant amount by 45.
(6) Where a special member to whom this article applies has special pensionable service as a regular firefighter accrued whilst he was a special member, he becomes entitled on retiring to a special member’s ordinary pension calculated by multiplying that part of his special pensionable service which is attributable to his service as a regular firefighter by his final pensionable pay and dividing the resultant amount by 45.
(7) Where paragraph (6) applies, the amount calculated under that paragraph shall be added to the amount calculated under paragraph (5).
(8) Where a person joins this Scheme as a special pensioner member and is entitled to a pension under this article, the Board shall pay to him a lump sum equal to the value, together with interest, of the pension payments (“the past pension payments”) he would have received up to the date of payment of the lump sum if at the date of his retirement he had been a member of this Scheme who had made contributions equivalent to his contributions under article 66A and 66B of Part 11 and articles 84B and 84C of Part 12 and shall thereafter pay him a special member’s ordinary pension.
(9) The interest payable in accordance with paragraph (8) is payable as follows—
(a) for the purposes of calculating interest under this paragraph it shall be assumed that the past pension payments were payable from the date that the member reached normal retirement age;
(b) interest starts to accrue from the date that the first past pension payment would have been made in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) and ceases to accrue on the date of payment of the lump sum in accordance with paragraph (8);
(c) interest shall be calculated by applying the past interest rate to the past pension payment compounded monthly between the month each past pension payment would have been made in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) until the date of payment of the lump sum,
and for the purposes of this article “past interest rate” is a rate equivalent to the interest available on the most recent issue of five-year fixed interest savings certificates from National Savings and Investments available on the 15th day of each month which would have been applicable to the period when the past pension payment in question would have been made in accordance with sub-paragraph (a).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/215/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/11A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-11A
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