SCHEDULEAMENDMENTS TO THE FIREMEN'S PENSION SCHEME

Schedule 2: Personal awards

30.  After Part VI of Schedule 2 (deferred pensions), insert–

“PART VIACALCULATION OF AWARDS FOR PART-TIME SERVICE

1.  Where some or all of a person’s service, by virtue of which his pensionable service is reckonable, is part-time service, his–

(a)ordinary pension under Part I,

(b)short-service pension under Part II,

(c)ill-health pension under Part III,

(d)injury gratuity under Part V,

(e)injury pension under Part V, and

(f)deferred pension under Part VI,

as appropriate, shall be calculated in accordance with this Part.

2.—(1) The amount of an award listed in paragraph 1 is–

where–

A is the amount of that award calculated under the relevant Part if the average pensionable pay was the pay the person would have received had he been a whole-time member of a brigade;

B is the period in years of his pensionable service as a whole-tme member of a brigade;

C is the period in years of his pensionable service as a part-time member of a brigade, expressed as a fraction, where the numerator is the total number of contractual hours during the part-time service and the denominator is the total number of contractual hours for one year of whole-time service; and

D is the period in years of his pensionable service.

(2) Neither (B + C) nor D shall exceed 30 years.”.