Legislation – The Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023
Part 1Introductory provisions
Interpretation2.
(1)
In these Regulations—
“PSPJOA 2022” means the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022;
“deferred choice decision” has the meaning given in regulation 12(1);
“deferred choice decision-maker” means the person who may make a deferred choice decision under regulation 12(2);
“deferred choice member” means a member with remediable service as a firefighter who, immediately before 1st October 2023, was—
(a)
(b)
“eligible child”, in relation to—
(a)
the 1992 scheme, means a person entitled to an award under Part D of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Order;
(b)
the 2006 scheme, has the meaning given in rule 6 of Part 4 of Schedule 1 to the 2006 Order;
(c)
the 2015 scheme, has the meaning given in regulation 85 of the 2014 Regulations;
“end of the section 10 election period”, in relation to a deferred choice member, means the time determined in accordance with—
(a)
where the member is the deferred choice decision-maker, regulation 13(3)(b);
(b)
where a person other than the member is the deferred choice decision-maker, regulation 14(2)(b);
a “firefighters’ pension scheme” means the 1992 scheme, the 2006 scheme or the reformed scheme;
“immediate choice decision” has the meaning given in regulation 8(1);
“immediate choice decision-maker” means the person who may make an immediate choice decision under regulation 8(2);
“immediate choice member” means a member with remediable service as a firefighter who, immediately before 1st October 2023, was—
(a)
a pensioner member in relation to that service, or
(b)
a deceased member;
“member” means an active, deferred, deceased or pensioner, but not a pension credit, member of a firefighters’ pension scheme;
“opted-out service election” has the meaning given in regulation 6(1);
“remedy member” means a deferred choice member or an immediate choice member;
“section 6 election” has the meaning given in regulation 8(1)(a);
“section 10 election” has the meaning given in regulation 12(1)(a).
(2)
For the purposes of these Regulations, a reference in PSPJOA 2022 to section 2(1) of that Act coming into force is to be understood as a reference to that section coming into force in relation to members of a firefighters’ pension scheme.
(3)
A term used in these Regulations which—
(a)
is defined in, or for the purposes of, a provision in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of PSPJOA 2022, and
(b)
is not defined differently in these Regulations,
has the meaning given in, or for the purposes of, that provision.
(4)
A term used in these Regulations which—
(a)
is defined in the 1992 Order, the 2006 Order or the 2014 Regulations (“the relevant Regulations”), and
(b)
is not defined differently—
(i)
in these Regulations, or
(ii)
in, or for the purposes of, a provision in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of PSPJOA 2022,
has, in relation to the scheme established by the relevant Regulations, the meaning given in those Regulations.
(5)
In these Regulations, a reference to a provision of the PSP Directions 2022 is a reference to that provision as amended from time to time.