The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Civil Partnership Amendments) (England And Scotland) Order 2005

Amendment of the Firefighters' Pension Scheme

2.  The Firefighters' Pension Scheme set out in Schedule 2 to the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992(1) shall be amended—

(a) as it has effect in relation to England, in accordance with Schedules 1 and 2 to this Order;

(b) as it has effect in relation to Scotland, in accordance with Schedules 1 and 3.

(1)

S.I. 1992/129; amended, as to England and Scotland, by 1997/2309 and 2851 and 1998/1010; as to England only by 2001/3649 and 3691, 2004/1912 and 2005/2980; and, as to Scotland only, by S.S.I. 2001/310, 2004/385 and 2005/xxxx. The Scheme was made under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947 (c. 41). That Act was repealed by section 52 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21) Subsections (1) to (5) of section 26 were continued in force, for the purposes of the scheme established under that section as the Firemen’s Pension Scheme,, by the Firefighters' Pension Scheme (England and Scotland) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2306). The name of the scheme was changed to the Firefighters' Pension Scheme, by article 4(1) of that Order.