The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2015

Tapered protection: members of an existing public body pension scheme

20.  This paragraph applies if—

(a) P was an active member of an existing scheme (other than the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS) or an existing public body pension scheme on the closing date for that scheme;

(b) P was an active member of an existing scheme or an existing public body pension scheme (“P’s transitional scheme”) on 31 March 2012;

(c) P begins service which is pensionable under the NFPS not more than five years after leaving pensionable service under an existing public body pension scheme;

(d) on the date that P begins service which is pensionable under the NFPS, P would have been a protected member of the existing public body pension scheme referred to in sub-paragraph (c) had P re-entered service which is pensionable under that scheme on that date; and

(e) P would, unless P dies, reach normal pension age—

(i) under the NFPS during the period beginning with 2 April 2022 and ending with 31 March 2026, and

(ii) under P’s transitional scheme on or before 1 September 2025.