{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-66D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-66D.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/66D",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "66D",
  "heading": "Purchase of service during the extended limited period – total pensionable service",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where—\n(a) a person joined this Scheme as a special member or as a standard member in respect of service which that person could otherwise reckon as special pensionable service and purchased service following an application under article 65A;\n(b) that person purchased additional service under article 65 at the same time as the election under article 65A;\n(c) that person elects to purchase service in respect of the extended limited period under article 65B; and\n(d) the addition of the period of service in respect of the extended limited period to the member’s special pensionable service (within the meaning in article 56A(1)) would result in a period exceeding 30 years.\n(2) The Board must revise the election to purchase additional service under article 65, in accordance with paragraph (3), so that the total special pensionable service does not exceed 30 years by the member’s normal retirement age.\n(3) The period by which the total special pensionable service would exceed 30 years (“the excess service”) at the member’s normal retirement age is to be deducted from the additional service which the member elected to purchase under article 65.\n(4) Any contributions paid by the member in respect of the excess service are to be deducted from the contributions due in respect of the service in respect of the extended limited period under article 65B.\n(5) Where the contributions paid by the member in respect of the excess service exceed the contributions due in respect of the service purchased under article 65B, the Board is to refund the excess contributions to the member.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Annex Scheme arts. 66D, 66E inserted (31.10.2023) by The Firefighters’ Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/178), reg. 1, Sch. para. 6(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/215/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/66D",
    "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."
}