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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-42",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/215",
  "legislation_title": "The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/42",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“the 1996 Act” means the Reserve Forces 1996;\n“forces period” means the period during which a person undertakes relevant service in the reserve forces;\n“qualifying injury” means an injury, received by a person in the performance of his duties as a firefighter, which is not wholly or mainly due to his own serious and culpable negligence or misconduct;\n“relevant service in the reserve forces” means service in the forces specified in section 1(2) of the 1996 Act—\n(a)in pursuance of a training obligation under Part 3 of that Act; or\n(b)by virtue of a call out for permanent service or a recall under the Reserve Forces Act 1980 or Part 7 of the 1996 Act; and\n“reservist” means a person who, immediately before a forces period, was a firefighter.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme art. 42 in operation at 30.3.2007 (with effect in accordance with art. 2(1)), see art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/215/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:07.019942+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."
}