Welsh Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 736 (W.88)

FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES, WALES

PENSIONS, WALES

The Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme (Contributions) (Amendment) Order 2013

Made

26 March 2013

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

27 March 2013

Coming into force

1 April 2013

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by section 26(1) of the Fire Services Act 1947(1) and now vested in them(2), make the following Order:

(1)

1947 c. 41, repealed by section 52 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21). Subsections (1) to (5) of section 26 continue to have effect, in relation to Wales, for the purposes of the scheme established under that section as the Firemen’s Pension Scheme and set out in the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/129), by article 3 of S.I. 2004/2918 (W.257). By article 4 of that instrument the name of the Scheme was changed to the Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme. Section 26 of the 1947 Act was amended by various Acts but those amendments are not relevant to this Order.

(2)

The Secretary of State’s functions under section 26 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 entry for the Fire Services Act 1947 in Schedule 1 to that Order. By virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.