{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-57.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/57",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Non-reckonable service",
  "text": "The following periods are not reckonable as pensionable service or as special pensionable service—\n(a) any period of unpaid leave, other than a period that is reckonable by virtue of article 58;\n(b) any period of service that has been taken into account for the purposes of a pension under article 13 (deferred pension) that has not been cancelled under article 14;\n(c) any period of absence resulting from sickness or injury attributable to the person’s misconduct which the Board determine should be unpaid absence;\n(d) any period of additional maternity, or adoption leave in respect of which the person entitled has declined to pay the required contributions; and\n(e) any period of service that is pensionable service by virtue of any other provision of this Part.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme art. 57 inserted (1.4.2015) by The New Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/9), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 8(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme art. 57 in operation at 30.3.2007 (with effect in accordance with art. 2(1)), see art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/215/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/57",
    "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."
}