The Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 (revoked)

• Citation: S.I. 1984/1821 (N.I.)
• Sections: 89

Section 1 Title and commencement

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Section 2 Interpretation

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Section 3 The Fire Authority for Northern Ireland

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Section 4 Duties of the Authority

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Section 5 Powers of the Authority

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Section 6 Fire-hydrants

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Section 7 Water supplies

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Section 8 Application of certain provisions of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972

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Section 9 Establishment scheme

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Section 10 Pensions

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(1) The Department, with the approval of the Department of Finance and Personnel, may by order provide⿿

(a) for the establishment and maintenance of one or more pension schemes for the purpose of providing pensions and other similar benefits in respect of the service of members of the fire brigade employed by the Authority;

(b) for the payment of contributions by the Authority or by members of the fire brigade, or both by the Authority and the members of the fire brigade;

(c) for securing that service with any body other than the Authority may, in such cases, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, be reckoned for superannuation purposes; and

(d) for reckoning for superannuation purposes, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order, of service occurring before 14th February 1950, as well as of service occurring thereafter.

(2) The Department may by order apply, subject to such modifications and conditions as may be specified in the order and as from such date as may be so specified, as respects employees (other than members of the fire brigade) of the Authority the provisions of any statutory provision for the time being in force relating to the pensions payable to or in respect of employees of district councils.

(3) An order made under this Article may provide for⿿

(a) the making as a condition precedent to the reckoning under paragraph (1) (c) of service with a body other than the Authority of⿿

(i) payments (whether in the form of repayments of contributions, payments of accrued superannuation values or any other payment of whatsoever nature directed to the creation or preservation of pension rights of the person concerned) by any former employer of the person concerned or out of any superannuation fund relevant to that person's former employment;

(ii) where the person concerned has received any payment in respect of his pension rights upon ceasing to be employed in his former employment, payments by that person equal to all or any of the amounts so received;

(b) in the case of a person who having ceased to be in the employment of the Authority has entered the employment of another person, the making of payments by the Authority corresponding to any payments such as are described in sub-paragraph (a) (i);

(c) pensions and other superannuation benefits which are being paid or may become payable to or in respect of such persons as are specified in the order being persons who before the date so specified died or ceased to serve in the employment, service in which qualified them for those pensions or superannuation benefits;

and any former employer such as is referred to in sub-paragraph (a) (i) and the person having charge of any superannuation fund such as is so referred to shall have power to make the payments mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) (i) if, apart from the provisions of this paragraph, they would not have power to do so.

(3A) Paragraphs (1) to (3) are subject to sections 18 and 19 of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (restrictions on benefits provided under existing schemes).

(4) An order under this Article may be framed so as to have effect as from a date earlier than the making of the order and section 18 (2) of the Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 shall not apply to any such order.

(5) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), an order made under that paragraph may make provision⿿

(a) where a person, immediately before he undertakes service of a description specified in Schedule 1 to the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 or attends for hourly instruction as defined in section 42 of that Act, is a member of the fire brigade, for treating the period of such service or instruction and such further period, if any, as may be specified in the order, on such conditions, if any, as may be so specified, as service in the employment of the Authority.

(b) for the manner in which any question arising under the order is to be determined and for appeals from determinations of any such question.

Section 11 Expenditure by the Authority

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Section 12 Accounts and audit

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Section 13 Estimates of the Authority's receipts and payments

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Section 14 Payments to the Authority

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Section 15 Borrowing powers

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Section 16 Annual report

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Section 17 Insurance by the Authority against accidents to its members

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Section 18 Owners, occupiers, etc. , not to pay for fire services

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Section 19 Power to extinguish fires, etc.

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Section 20 False alarms

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Section 21 Interpretation

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Section 22 Uses of premises for which fire certificate is compulsory

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Section 23 Premises exempt from Article 22

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Section 24 Power to make fire certificate compulsory for use of premises as dwelling etc.

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Section 25 Right of appeal against, and coming into force of, notices under Article 24

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Section 26 Application for, and issue of, fire certificate

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Section 26A Powers for the Authority to grant exemption in particular cases

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Section 26B Withdrawal of exemptions under Article 26A

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Section 27 Contents of fire certificate

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Section 28 Offences in relation to foregoing provisions

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Section 29 Change of conditions affecting adequacy of certain matters specified in fire certificate, etc.

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Section 29A Change of conditions affecting premises for which exemption has been granted

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Section 29B Charges for issue or amendment of fire certificates

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Section 30 Right of appeal as regards matters arising out of Articles 26 to 29

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Section 31 Duty as to means of escape and for fighting fire

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Section 31A Codes of practice as to means of escape and for fighting fire

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Section 31B Legal effect of codes of practice

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Section 31C Improvement notices

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Section 31D Rights of appeal against improvement notices

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Section 31E Provision as to offences

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Section 32 Means of escape from fire in hotels and boarding houses

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Section 33 Special procedure in case of serious risk: prohibition notices

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Section 33A Rights of appeal against prohibition notices

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Section 33B Provision as to offences

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Section 34 Power to make regulations about fire precautions

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Section 35 Exercise of certain powers of Authority where building regulations as to means of escape apply

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Section 36 District councils to consult Authority before dispensing with or relaxing certain requirements of building regulations

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Section 37 District councils to consult Authority in certain cases before passing plans

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Section 38 Authority to consult other authorities before requiring alterations to buildings

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Section 39 Enforcement of this Part

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