The Superannuation (Fire Brigade and Belfast Fire Force) Transfer Rules 1967

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

(a) retires or, subject to the next following paragraph, has retired from service as a regular fireman in a fire brigade in Great Britain without being entitled to a pension under the Firemen's Pension Scheme;

(b) within 12 months of so retiring (or such longer period as may be agreed in a particular case by the fire authority and the Corporation), without any intervening service as a regular fireman, becomes or has become a member of the Belfast Fire Force, and

(c) within 3 months of becoming a member of the Belfast Fire Force or, within 6 months of the coming into operation of these Rules (whichever period last expires), (or within such longer period as may be agreed in a particular case by the fire authority and the Corporation) notifies the Corporation that he desires these Rules to apply to him.

(2) These Rules shall only apply to a regular fireman who retired before the coming into operation thereof if the fire authority and the Corporation in a particular case so agree.

2.  Where a person to whom these Rules apply is, subject to the payment of a transfer value, entitled under the Belfast Fire Brigade Superannuation Scheme to reckon pensionable service for the purposes thereof by virtue of his service as a regular fireman, the fire authority shall pay to the Corporation a transfer value calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto.

3.—(1) In these Rules the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

“the Belfast Fire Brigade Superannuation Scheme” means the Scheme for the time being in operation under section 13 of the Fire Services (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1950;

“the Corporation” means the Corporation of the city of Belfast;

“the fire authority”, in relation to any person, means the fire authority maintaining the fire brigade in which he ceases or has ceased to serve as mentioned in Rule 1(1) of these Rules;

“the Firemen's Pension Scheme” means the Scheme for the time being in operation under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947;

“regular fireman” means a member of a fire brigade in Great Britain of a class prescribed by the Firemen's Pension Scheme for the purposes of section 2 of the Fire Services Act 1951.

(2) In these Rules a reference to any enactment is a reference to that enactment as amended or extended by any subsequent enactment.

(3) For the interpretation of these Rules—

(a) the Interpretation Act 1889shall apply as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament;

(b) notwithstanding section 31 of the said Act of 1889, the definition of the expression “pension” in section 17(1) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 shall not apply.

4.  These Rules may be cited as the Superannuation (Fire Brigade and Belfast Fire Force) Transfer Rules 1967 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1967.

Roy Jenkins

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

Whitehall

5th August 1967