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12.—(1) Part 14 is amended as follows.
(2) In rule 1 (authorities responsible for payment of awards)—
(a)in paragraph (1) for “An award” substitute “Subject to paragraph (3), an award”;
(b)after paragraph (2) insert—
“(3) An award payable to or in respect of a special member by reason of his having been employed as a retained firefighter is payable by the authority by whom he was employed, or, in the case of a special member whose contracts of employment as a retained firefighter are treated as one employment in accordance with rule 4(2) of this Part, the authority which last employed him.”
(3) In rule 4 (pensions under more than one contract of employment)—
(a)renumber the existing paragraph as “(1)”;
(b)at the end insert—
“(2) Where a person is, or is eligible to be, a special member of this Scheme in respect of more than one contract of employment (whether with the same or different authorities) the person may elect to treat those employments as one employment.
(3) An election under paragraph (2) shall be made by giving notice in writing to the authority which last employed him and shall be given at the same time as the application under rule 5A(5) of Part 11.”
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