The Police Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019

Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987

6.  In regulation F1 (reckoning of pensionable service)(1)—

(a) in paragraph (1), after sub-paragraph (da), insert—

“(db) any period of unpaid adoption leave, unpaid adoption support leave or unpaid maternity support leave taken on or after 1 September 2014 in respect of which the conditions specified in paragraph (1B) are not satisfied,”,

(b) for paragraph (1B) substitute—

“(1B) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1)(c), (da) and (db) are that the person concerned—

(a) was serving as a regular policeman immediately before a period of maternity, parental, adoption, adoption support or maternity support leave which includes the period of unpaid leave in question and no election under regulation G4 (election not to pay pension contributions) was effective in respect of that person immediately before the commencement of that period of unpaid leave, and

(b) in accordance with paragraph (1D) pays to the police authority a sum equal to the sum of the pension contributions which would have been payable for the period of unpaid leave in question, if that person’s notional pensionable pay during that period had been at the same rate as that person’s pensionable pay (including any statutory maternity pay, statutory adoption pay or statutory paternity pay payable under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(2)) immediately before the commencement of the period of unpaid maternity leave, unpaid parental leave, unpaid adoption leave, unpaid adoption support leave or unpaid maternity support leave which constituted or included the period in question.”.

(1)

Regulation F1(1)(da) was inserted by S.S.I. 2004/486.

(2)

1992 c.4.