{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-55.json",
  "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/55",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Qualifying service",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Scheme, the following periods are periods of a person’s qualifying service—\n(a) the period during which the person is a firefighter member of the scheme and for which he receives pensionable pay;\n(b) any period during which the person—\n(i) is a firefighter member of the Scheme;\n(ii) is on unpaid absence other than unauthorised absence;\n(iii) has made an election under article 58(1); and\n(iv) has paid such contributions as are required to be paid under that article in respect of that period;\n(c) in relation to the second pension under article 17 (entitlement to two pensions), the period of qualifying service taken into account in calculating the first pension under that article;\n(d) any period of additional service purchased under Part 11;\n(e) a period credited on acceptance of a transfer under Part 12;\n(f) where the person was a member the 2007 Scheme, the period of service used for determining his eligibility for an award under that Scheme;\n(g) any period of service that may be credited to the scheme member resulting from maternity, paternity , parental bereavement or adoption leave.\n(h) any period of service during the limited period or extended limited period in respect of which the person has paid the mandatory special period pension contributions; ...\n(i) any period of service as a retained firefighter before 1st July 2000 which, if it had been a period of service during the limited period or extended limited period in relation to which mandatory special period pension contributions had been paid, would have been qualifying service in accordance with sub-paragraph (h). and\n(j) any period of pensionable service for the active member’s account under the 2015 Scheme to which the person’s qualifying service had been added for the purposes of qualifying service in the 2015 Scheme.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme art. 55(1)(g) inserted (29.9.2023) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/157), regs. 1(1), 14(3)(a), 34 (with regs. 28-33)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Annex Scheme art. 55(h)(i) added (1.4.2015) by virtue of The New Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/9), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 8(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme art. 55(h) inserted (31.10.2023) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/178), reg. 1, Sch. para. 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Annex Scheme art. 55(h) omitted (retrospective to 1.4.2015) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/420), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme art. 55(i) inserted (31.10.2023) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/178), reg. 1, Sch. para. 5(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Annex Scheme art. 55(j) and word inserted (retrospective to 1.4.2015) by virtue of The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/420), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme art. 55 in operation at 30.3.2007 (with effect in accordance with art. 2(1)), see art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/215/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/55",
    "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."
}