{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-8.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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Election not to make pension contributions",
  "text": "(1) A firefighter member may at any time, by giving notice in writing to the Board, elect to make no further pension contributions (referred to in this Scheme as a “contributions election”).\n(1A) A written notice given under paragraph (1) should be signed by the firefighter member or, where the notice is in electronic format, it must include a statement confirming that that person personally submitted the notice.\n(1B) A contributions election may not be made solely in respect of contributions relevant to additional pension benefit under article 17B of Part 3 (additional pension benefit: continual professional development).\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3)—\n(a) a contributions election takes effect on the day on which begins the first pay period falling after the date on which the notice is received; and\n(b) the membership of the Scheme of a firefighter member making a contributions election ceases on the day on which the election takes effect.\n(3) A person who makes a contributions election within three months of joining the Scheme shall be treated as if he had never been a member of it.\n(4) A person whose membership of the Scheme ceases as mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) remains entitled to any deferred benefits accrued while he was a member.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Annex Scheme art. 8(1A) inserted (1.10.2013) by The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/172), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 2 art. 8(1A) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(4)(a) of the amending Rule) by The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/381), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Annex Scheme Pt. 2 art. 8(1A) renumbered as art. 8(1B) (retrospective to 1.10.2013) by The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/168), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme art. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}