Citation, commencement, application and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) (England) Order 2013 and shall come into force on 1st October 2013.
(2) This Order applies in relation to England only(1).
(3) In this Order—
“the 1992 Order” means the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992(2);
“the 2013 Order” means the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) (England) Order 2013(3);
“relevant fire and rescue authority” in relation to a person entitled to a pension, or in respect of whom a pension is payable, means—
the fire and rescue authority by whom that person was last so employed; or,
where his or her employment ceased before 1st October 2004, the fire and rescue authority which inherited the liabilities of the fire authority which last employed that person; and
“the Scheme” means the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme as set out in Schedule 2 to the 1992 Order.
The Secretary of State’s functions under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947, in so far as they were exercisable in relation to Scotland, were devolved to Scottish Ministers by section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) and article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to Scottish Ministers etc) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1750). The Secretary of State’s functions under section 3(5) of the Fire Services Act 1947 are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously vested in the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672); see the entry for the Fire Services Act 1947 in Schedule 1 to that Order. By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32), they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.
S.I. 1992/129; amended by S.I. 1997/2309, 1997/2851, 1998/1010, 2001/3649, 2001/3691, 2004/1912, 2006/1810, 2006/3433, 2008/214, 2012/953, 2013/1392. The Scheme was made under section 26 of the Fire Services Act 1947 (c.41).