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FIRE SERVICES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 17

1962 c.7

17.(1) The Ministry, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, may by
order provide

(a)for the establishment and maintenance of one or more pension schemes and
pension funds for the purpose of providing pensions and other similar benefits
in respect of the service of the fire officers and firemen employed by the
Authority;

(b)for the payment of contributions by the Authority or by the fire officers
and firemen or both by the Authority and the fire officers and firemen;

(c)for securing that service with any body other than the Authority may, in
such cases, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as may be specified
in the order, be reckoned for superannuation purposes; and

(d)for reckoning for superannuation purposes, upon such terms and subject to
such conditions as may be specified in the order, of service occurring before
the 14th February 1950 as well as of service occurring thereafter.

(2) The Ministry may by order apply, subject to such modifications and
conditions as may be specified in the order and as from such date as may be so
specified, as respects officers (other than fire officers) employed by the
Authority the provisions of any enactment for the time being in force relating
to the pensions of officers of local authorities.

(3) The Ministry may by order provide that, subject to such modifications as
may be specified in that order, orders made under subsection (1) shall extend
to officers (other than fire officers) employed by the Authority and in
relation to such officers the Ministry in exercise of its extended powers may
provide for the establishment and maintenance of pension schemes and pension
funds as an alternative to the provisions of any enactment applied by order
under subsection (2) but shall not exercise those powers so as to derogate
from any pension rights which have accrued to any such officer under any
enactment so applied.

[(3A) An order made under this section may provide for

(a)the making as a condition precedent to the reckoning under subsection
(1)(c) of service with a body other than the Fire Authority for Northern
Ireland of

(i)payments (whether in the form of repayments of contributions, payments of
accrued superannuation values or any other payment of whatsoever nature
directed to the creation or preservation of pension rights of the person
concerned) by any former employer of the person concerned or out of any
superannuation fund relevant to that person's former employment;

(ii)where the person concerned has received any payment in respect of his
pension rights upon ceasing to be employed in his former employment, payments
by that person equal to all or any of the amounts so received;

(b)in the case of a person who having ceased to be in the employment of the
Fire Authority for Northern Ireland has entered the employment of another
person, the making of payments by the Authority corresponding to any payments
such as are described in paragraph (a)(i);

(c)pensions and other superannuation benefits which are being paid or may
become payable to or in respect of such persons as are specified in the order
being persons who before the date so specified died or ceased to serve in the
employment service in which qualified them for those pensions or
superannuation benefits;

(3B) An order under this section may be framed so as to have effect as from a
date earlier than the making of the order and section 18(2) of the
Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 shall not
apply to any such order.]

(4) An order made under subsection (1) may provide where a person, immediately
before he undertakes service of a description specified in Schedule 1 to the
Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951, or
attends for hourly instruction as defined in section 42 of that Act, is an
officer, fire officer or fireman employed by the Authority, for treating the
period of such service or instruction and such further period, if any, as may
be specified in the order, on such conditions, if any, as may be so specified,
as service in the employment of the Authority.

Subs.(5) rep. by 1973 NI9 art.12 sch.2 Pt.I

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