The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Pensionable service under a police scheme N.I.

3.—(1) For the purpose of this Schedule, a transition member (T) is in pensionable service under a police scheme while T is on unpaid leave from the employment to which that service relates.

(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1)—

“a police scheme” means—

(a)

the 1988 scheme;

(b)

the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme;;

(c)

the 2006 scheme;

(d)

the 2006 England and Wales police pension scheme;

(e)

the 2006 Scotland police pension scheme

(f)

the 2015 England and Wales police pension scheme; or

(g)

the 2015 Scotland police pension scheme; and

“unpaid leave” in relation to employment to which pensionable service under a police scheme relates, means—

(a)

a career break, or

(b)

any other period of unpaid leave—

(i)

that does not exceed 5 years; and

(ii)

during which the employment relationship continues M1 .

Marginal Citations

M1 See regulation 19 (periods of unpaid leave) for periods of unpaid leave during which the employment relationship continues.