2.—(1) The Police Pensions Regulations 1987(1) are amended as follows.
(2) For regulation G2 (pension contribution payable by regular policeman) substitute—
“G2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (5) and regulation G2A, a regular police officer whose basic annual salary is £27,000 or less shall pay to the police authority pension contributions at the rate of 1p a week less than—
(a)in a case where he is ineligible under regulation G7 or G8 for a pension award payable on the ground of permanent disablement, 8.1 per cent of his pensionable pay; and
(b)in any other case 11.6 per cent of his pensionable pay.
(2) Subject to paragraph (5) and regulation G2A, a regular policeman whose basic annual salary is more than £27,000 but less than £60,000 shall pay to the police authority pension contributions at the rate of 1p a week less than—
(a)in a case where he is ineligible under regulation G7 or G8 for a pension award payable on the ground of permanent disablement, 8.75 per cent of his pensionable pay; and
(b)in any other case, 12.25 per cent of his pensionable pay.
(3) Subject to paragraph (5) and regulation G2A, a regular policeman whose basic annual salary is £60,000 or more shall pay to the police authority pension contributions at the rate of 1p a week less than—
(a)in a case where he is ineligible under regulation G7 or G8 for a pension award payable on the grounds of permanent disablement, 9 per cent of his pensionable pay; and
(b)in any other case, 12.5 per cent of his pensionable pay.
(4) The pension contributions payable under paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) upon each instalment of pay shall fall due at the same time as the instalment and may, without prejudice to any other method of payment, be discharged by way of a reduction of the appropriate amount made by the police authority from the said instalment.
(5) Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) shall not apply in the case of a regular policeman who has made an election under regulation G4(1) which is, for the time being, in effect.
(6) For the purposes of this regulation “basic annual salary” means—
(a)in the case of a regular policeman in full-time service, the salary payable to that regular policeman in accordance with a determination made by Scottish Ministers under regulation 24 of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 2004(2); and
(b)in the case of a regular policeman in part-time service, the salary that would be payable to that regular policeman in accordance with such a determination if he was in full-time service,
and does not include any bonus, weighting or other payment payable to the regular policeman in accordance with such a determination.”.
S.I. 1987/257; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1987/341 and 2215, 1988/1339, 1989/733, 1990/805, 1991/1517, 1992/1343 and 2349, 1994/641, 1996/867, 1997/1429 and 2852 and 1998/577 and S.S.I. 2000/193, 2001/459, 2003/406, 2004/486, 2005/200 and 495, 2006/285, 2007/68, 2008/327, 2009/185, 2010/85 and 232 and 2011/ 154.
S.I. 2004/257; relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2007/134.