The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Aggregate pension contributions for purposes of awards

A10.—(1) For the purpose of calculating the amount of an award by reference to the aggregate pension contributions of a regular policeman in respect of the relevant period of service, the relevant period of service shall be taken to be the period ending in the retirement, dismissal or death on which the award is payable and beginning with the date on which he became a regular policeman in the force from which he retired or was dismissed or in which he died or, if he has more than once been a regular policeman in that force, the date on which he last joined that force otherwise than as a serviceman resuming service in his former force within a month of the end of his period of relevant service in the armed forces.

(2) For the purpose aforesaid the aggregate pension contributions in respect of the relevant period of service shall be taken to be the sum of the following amounts—

(a) the aggregate of the pension contributions (including additional, further or special contributions) made in respect of that period by the person concerned to the police authority by whom the award is payable and any rateable deductions made in respect of that period by that authority from his pay under the former Acts;

(b) any additional, further or special payment by way of a lump sum made during the relevant period by that person to that police authority;

(c) the amount of any sums paid by the person concerned to the said police authority (including sums paid in pursuance of an undertaking) as a condition of being entitled to reckon pensionable service or, as the case may be, approved service, by reason of service before the said period;

(d) where the person concerned has transferred to the force of the police authority by whom the award is payable, any sum which had he retired instead of transferring would have been calculable under this paragraph as aggregate pension contributions at the time of transfer;

(e) where the person concerned, while a member of the force of the said police authority, became entitled, in the circumstances mentioned in Regulation F3(1)(d), (e) or (f), Regulation F6 or Regulation F7, to reckon pensionable service by reason of a period of previous service or employment otherwise than as a member of a police force, the amount of any award by way of return of contributions or of any analogous payment which would have been made to him at the end of that period of previous service or employment had he voluntarily retired therefrom in circumstances entitling him to such an award or payment under the superannuation arrangements applicable thereto, and

(f) where the person concerned previously retired with an ill-health pension from the force of the police authority by whom the current award is payable, that pension was terminated in whole or in part under Regulation K1 or any corresponding provision of the former Regulations and he rejoined the force, any sum which would have been calculable under this paragraph as aggregate pension contributions at the time of the previous retirement.

(3) The references in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) to additional, further or special contributions or payments are references to such contributions or payments made in pursuance of an election under any of the provisions mentioned in Regulation 57(2), under Regulation 58 or under Regulation 61A of the Regulations of 1973 subject, however, to Regulations F4(3) and F5(2)(c) (previous service reckonable on payment or at discretion of police authority).