The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

Interpretation

1.—(1) In this Schedule—

“beneficiary” means a person who has become entitled to receive any death benefit;

“child”, except in the term “eligible child”, means a person under the age of 18;

“death benefit” means a benefit payable under a firefighters’ pension scheme in relation to a member of that scheme who has died;

“election” means an opted-out service election, an immediate choice decision or a deferred choice decision;

“eligible decision-maker” means the person who may make—

(a)

an opted-out service election in accordance with regulation 6(2)(b);

(b)

an immediate choice decision in accordance with regulation 8(2)(b);

(c)

a deferred choice decision in accordance with regulation 12(2)(b).

“surviving partner” has the meaning given in regulation 84 of the 2015 Regulations.

(2) In this Schedule, a reference to—

(a) a beneficiary is a reference to—

(i) a person who is a beneficiary of death benefits in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter, or

(ii) where the benefits in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter are legacy scheme benefits, a person who would be a beneficiary of death benefits in relation to M’s remediable service as a firefighter if the benefits in relation to that service were reformed scheme benefits;

(b) an eligible child is a reference to an eligible child of M;

(c) M is a reference to the remedy member in respect of whose remediable service as a firefighter an election may be made;

(d) a surviving partner is a reference to a surviving partner in relation to M.