Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/242) to correct minor errors in the Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023. Regulation 2(13) makes provision for instances in which a remedy member’s legacy scheme is the 2007 scheme. This aligns with the provision already set out in regulation 51 of the Firefighters’ Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 in relation to members whose legacy scheme is the 1992 scheme.

These Regulations are also made further to the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7) in order to remedy the unlawful discrimination on the basis of age that was found to result from the transitional protections afforded to certain cohorts of members of legacy pension schemes (the schemes established by the Firemen’s Pension Scheme Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/129) and Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Order 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/199)).