The Contracted-out Employment (Fire Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1977

Statutory Instruments

1977 No. 1680

FIRE SERVICES

SUPERANNUATION

The Contracted-Out Employment (Fire Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1977

Made

17th October 1977

Laid before Parliament

26th October 1977

Coming into Operation

1st December 1977

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 52 of, and paragraphs 8 and 9 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, and after consulting such bodies as appear to me fairly to represent the interests of fire authorities and members of fire brigades constituted and maintained in pursuance of the Fire Services Act 1947 (and of persons treated as such members in pursuance of section 26(2) thereof) in accordance with paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1975, I hereby make the following Regulations which were referred in draft to the Occupational Pensions Board in accordance with section 61(2) of the said Act of 1975:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Contracted-out Employment (Fire Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1977 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1977.

2.  The Contracted-out Employment (Fire Services) Regulations 1977(1) shall be amended by omitting from Regulation 3 the words “in Great Britain”.

Merlyn Rees

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

17th October 1977

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Part III of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 contains provisions for contracting-out from full contributions and benefits under that Act. The Contracted-out Employment (Fire Services) Regulations 1977 relate to the operation and administration of Part III in the case of persons subject to the Firemen's Pension Scheme in force under the Fire Services Act 1947, other than persons entitled thereunder only to injury benefit or employed outside Great Britain. These Regulations amend those Regulations by extending them to persons employed outside Great Britain.

(1)

(1977 II, p. 3143).