Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001

Staff remuneration and pensions

11 (1) The Authority—

(a) shall pay to members of their staff such remuneration and allowances, and

(b) may make such payments in respect of remuneration and allowances paid by others to persons engaged with the Authority as members of their staff on periods of temporary service,

as the Authority may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, determine.

(2) The Authority shall—

(a) pay, or make payments in respect of, such pensions or gratuities to or in respect of any persons who are, or have been, members of their staff as the Authority may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, determine; and

(b) establish and maintain such schemes (whether contributory or not) as they may determine, with the consent of the Secretary of State, for the payment of pensions or gratuities to or in respect of any such persons.

(3) References in this paragraph to pensions and gratuities include references to pensions or gratuities by way of compensation to or in respect of members of the staff of the Authority who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments.

(4) If any person—

(a) after ceasing to be employed by the Authority becomes or continues to be one of the Authority’s members, and

(b) was, by reference to his employment, a participant in a pension scheme maintained by the Authority,

the Authority may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, make provision for that person to continue to participate in that scheme, on such terms and conditions as they may with the consent of the Secretary of State determine, as if his service as a member of the Authority were service as a member of their staff.

(5) Any provision made by virtue of sub-paragraph (4) is without prejudice to paragraph 9.