Legislation – The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Wales) Regulations 2023
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PART 7Provision about special cases
CHAPTER 1Ill-health retirement
M’s entitlement to ill-health benefits to be treated as equivalent in M’s alternative scheme
53.
(1)
This regulation applies in relation to an immediate choice member (“M”) who, during the period beginning on 1 April 2015 and ending on 31 March 2022, was—
(a)
a 2007 IHR member; or
(b)
a 2015 IHR member.
(2)
For the purposes of the PSPJOA 2022 and these Regulations, M is to be treated as meeting the requirements for an equivalent ill-health award in M’s alternative scheme.
(3)
In paragraph (2), “equivalent ill-health award in M’s alternative scheme” means, where M is entitled to—
(a)
a lower tier award under the 2007 scheme, a lower tier award under the 2015 scheme;
(b)
a higher tier award under the 2007 scheme, a higher tier award under the 2015 scheme;
(c)
a lower tier award under the 2015 scheme, and—
(i)
M’s legacy scheme is the 1992 scheme, a lower tier award under that scheme;
(ii)
M’s legacy scheme is the 2007 scheme, a lower tier award under that scheme;
(d)
a higher tier award under the 2015 scheme, and—
(i)
M’s legacy scheme is the 1992 scheme, a higher tier award under that scheme;
(ii)
M’s legacy scheme is the 2007 scheme, a higher tier award under that scheme.
(4)
No question relating to M’s entitlement to ill-health benefits that has been decided following a referral to an IQMP is to be re-opened by virtue of any provision of the PSPJOA 2022 or of these Regulations.