SCHEDULE Amendments to the Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme (Scotland) 2006

Amendments to Part 10

7.  In Part 10 (payment of awards and financial provisions)—

(a) in rule 3 (prevention of duplication)—

(i) in paragraph (4), for sub-paragraph (a)(ii) substitute—

“(ii) under rule 1, 1A, 2 or 3 of Part 3 of the 2006 Scheme to an ordinary, special member’s ordinary, ill-health or deferred pension;”; and

(ii) in paragraph (6), for “regular firefighter” substitute “regular or retained firefighter”;

(b) in rule 4 (prevention of duplication: other injury awards for persons who are both regular and retained firefighters)—

(i) in paragraph (2), for “both a regular firefighter and” substitute “a volunteer firefighter and a retained firefighter or a regular firefighter”;

(ii) omit sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) and the word “and” after it;

(iii) in paragraph (2)(b)(i), after “regular firefighter” insert “or a retained firefighter”;

(iv) in paragraph (2)(b)(ii), for “retained firefighter” substitute “volunteer firefighter”;

(v) in paragraph (3), after “regular firefighter” insert “or a retained firefighter”;

(vi) in paragraph (3), for “retained firefighter” substitute “volunteer firefighter”;

(vii) in paragraph (4), for “retained firefighter” substitute “volunteer firefighter”;

(c) in rule 5 (prevention of duplication: other awards for spouses or children of persons who are both regular and retained firefighters), in paragraph (3)—

(i) omit “and” after sub-paragraph (e);

(ii) after sub-paragraph (f), insert—

“(g) a survivor’s pension under rule 1 of Part 4 of the 2006 Scheme;

(h) a survivor’s bereavement pension under rule 4 of Part 4 of the 2006 Scheme;

(i) a child’s pension under rule 6 of Part 4 of the 2006 Scheme;

(j) a child’s bereavement pension under rule 9 of Part 4 of the 2006 Scheme;

(k) a death grant under rule 1 of Part 5 of the 2006 Scheme;

(l) a post-retirement death grant under rule 2 of Part 5 of the 2006 Scheme.”.