The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Deductions from pay of social security benefits and statutory sick pay

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24.—(1) There is to be deducted from the pay of a police member who is in receipt of full pay―

(a)any statutory sick pay to which that member is entitled under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1); and

(b)any contributory employment and support allowance to which that member is entitled under the Welfare Reform Act 2007(2).

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), any increase for adult and child dependents is to be treated as forming part of the benefit or allowance to which it relates.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a female police member who as a married woman or widow has elected to pay contributions under section 19 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(3) at the reduced rate is to be deemed entitled to any social security benefits mentioned in paragraph (1) to which she would have been entitled had she not elected to contribute at the reduced rate.

(4) In this regulation, “full pay” means pay at the rate ascertained from regulation 17 and the determination made thereunder.

(3)

Section 19 has been amended by the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c.2), section 2 and Schedule 3, paragraph 19 and by the National Insurance Contributions Act 2008 (c.19), Schedule 1, paragraph 5.