{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-6.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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Normal retirement age and normal benefit age",
  "text": "(1) The normal retirement age of firefighter members who are not special firefighter members is 60.\n(2) The normal benefit age of firefighter members who are not special firefighter members is 65.\n(3) The normal retirement age of special firefighter members, or for persons who joined this Scheme as special pensioner members, is 55.\n(4) The normal benefit age of special firefighter members, or of special deferred members, is 60.\n(5) The normal retirement age of connected members is 60.\n(6) The normal retirement age of connected special members is 55.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme art. 6(1) inserted (1.4.2015) by The New Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/9), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex Scheme art. 6(2) inserted (1.4.2015) by The New Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/9), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Annex Scheme art. 6(3)(4) inserted (1.4.2015) by The New Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/9), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Annex Scheme art. 6(5)(6) inserted (retrospective to 1.4.2015) by The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/420), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme art. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}