Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Full-time) Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Service before 1st July 1994

6.  There shall be substituted for regulation 5 of the principal regulations the following regulation—

“Service before 1st July 1994

5.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), nothing in these regulations shall operate so as to confer on any person any entitlement to an award or payment under the Pensions Regulations as applied to reserve members by these regulations in respect of or relating to a reserve member’s service as such at any time before 1st July 1994.

(2) For the purpose of calculating an award to a reserve member under regulation B4 of the Pensions Regulations as applied to reserve members by these regulations his pensionable service shall be deemed to be his period, or the aggregate of his periods, of service as a reserve member:

Provided that if a reserve member is entitled to a pension under the Pensions Regulations, the 1973 Regulations, the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Order 1949(1) or the Ulster Special Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1950(2) or becomes entitled to claim long-term or retirement compensation under the said Regulations of 1950—

(a) his pensionable service shall be deemed to be the sum of his pensionable service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary or the Ulster Special Constabulary or in both those constabularies, as the case may be, and his period, or the aggregate of his periods, of service as a reserve member;

(b) his pension under the said Order of 1949 or the 1973 Regulations or his pension or any periodic compensation payable to him under the said Regulations of 1950 shall be deemed to be such a pension as is mentioned in paragraph 3 of Part V of Schedule B to the Pensions Regulations; and

(c) any lump sum retirement compensation payable to him under the said Regulations of 1950 shall be treated as if it were such a gratuity as is mentioned in paragraph 4(4) of the said Part V.”.

(1)

S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1949 No. 211 (p. 379)

(2)

S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1950 No. 97 (p. 617)