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

Rule 2

SCHEDULE

1.  The sum to be paid by the fire authority to the Corporation under Rule 2 of these Rules shall, subject to the next following paragraph, be the like sum as would have been payable by the fire authority to another fire authority by way of transfer value under the Firemen's Pension Scheme, had the person—

(a) retired from service as a regular fireman without a pension and without a transfer value becoming payable under Rules made by virtue of section 9 of the Fire Services Act 1959

(b) within 12 months of so retiring and without any intervening service as a regular fireman joined another fire brigade, and

(c) become entitled to reckon as pensionable service for the purposes of the Firemen's Pension Scheme the period of service he was so entitled to reckon on retiring.

2.—(1) The provisions of the Firemen's Pension Scheme as to the calculation of a transfer value in the circumstances aforesaid shall apply to the calculation of a transfer value under these Rules subject to the modifications hereinafter specified and any other necessary modifications.

(2) Where the person retired from service as a regular fireman before the coming into operation of these Rules, the reference in the said provisions to his age shall be construed as a reference to his age at the coming into operation of these Rules.

(3) The reference in the said provisions to the amount which the person has, as a condition of becoming entitled to reckon pensionable service as mentioned in paragraph 1(c) of this Schedule, undertaken to pay by regular instalments in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Firemen's Pension Scheme shall be construed as a reference to the aggregate amount of—

(a) any sum paid to the person under the Firemen's Pension Scheme, by way of gratuity or return of aggregate contributions, and

(b) the balance outstanding immediately before his retirement of any sum he had, as a condition of becoming entitled to reckon previous service, undertaken to pay by regular instalments in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Firemen's Pension Scheme:

Provided that in relation to person who paid pension contributions under the Firemen's Pension Scheme at a rate related to 6% of his pensionable pay, the sum paid to him by way of gratuity or return of aggregate contributions or the sum he had undertaken to pay by regular instalments shall be deemed to be the sum which would have been so paid or, as the case may be, which he would have undertaken so to pay had he paid pension contributions at a rate related to 5% of his pensionable pay.