Former members of an English or Welsh police force or the Police Service of Northern Ireland
96.—(1) This regulation applies in the case of a regular police officer who has been a member of a police force within the meaning of the Police Act 1996 or of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
(2) Where such a regular police officer is entitled to reckon pensionable service by reason of service in an English or Welsh police force or the Police Service of Northern Ireland (in this regulation referred to as “that officer’s former force”) and–
(a)left that officer’s former force for the purpose of becoming a regular police officer in a home police force and joins that home police force in that capacity; or
(b)retired from or otherwise ceased to serve in that officer’s former force and subsequently joins a home police force at a time when no pension is in payment to that officer by reason of service in that officer’s former force,
then for the purposes of these Regulations including in particular regulation 10, 11, 12, 13, and 95, anything done, by that officer or in that officer’s case, under or for the purposes of a provision of the English and Welsh pensions legislation or the Police Service of Northern Ireland pensions legislation which corresponds to a provision of these Regulations shall be treated as if it had been done under or for the purpose of that corresponding provision; and accordingly that officer’s pensionable service in that officer’s former force shall be reckonable as if it had been pensionable service in a home police force, subject, where applicable, to the making by the regular police officer concerned of an appropriate payment to the police authority for the relevant home police force, in accordance with regulation 13.