The Superannuation (Fire and Specified Services) Interchange Rules 1972

PART II PAYMENT OF TRANSFER VALUES BY FIRE AUTHORITIES

4.—(1) These Rules shall apply in the case of a person who—

(a) retires, or subject to paragraph (2) has retired, from service as a regular fireman without a transfer value becoming payable in his case otherwise than under these Rules;

(b) either was not entitled to a pension under the Firemen's Pension Scheme on so retiring or, if so entitled, has not received any payments in respect of the pension;

(c) enters or has entered specified service (that is to say, such service or employment as is mentioned in Schedule 1) within 12 months of so retiring or within such longer period as may be agreed in the circumstances of his case between the fire authority and the appropriate authority;

(d) within 6 months of 1st May 1972 or 3 months of his entering the specified service, whichever is the later, or within such longer period as may be agreed as aforesaid in the circumstances of his case, notifies the fire authority that he desires these Rules to apply in his case, where, in the specified service he is, or subject to the payment of a transfer value, would be, entitled to reckon service for superannuation purposes by virtue of his service as a regular fireman.

(2) Where a person who retired from service as a regular fireman before 1st May 1972 enters, or before that date has entered, the specified service, these Rules shall apply in his case only with the consent (given at his request) of both the fire authority and the appropriate authority.

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), in respect of a person to whom these Rules apply the fire authority shall pay to the appropriate authority a transfer value calculated in accordance with Schedule 2.

(2) Where the person concerned is subject to any superannuation arrangements specified in the second column of the Table in Schedule 1 but is not employed by the body specified opposite thereto in the first column of that Table, the fire authority shall not be required to, but may, pay a transfer value as aforesaid.