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The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

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Pensionable and average pensionable pay

G1.—(1) The pensionable pay of a member of a police force at any time means his pay at the rate to which he is or was then entitled, account being taken of any retrospective increase in that rate.

(2) The average pensionable pay of a member of a police force shall, subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), be the aggregate of his pensionable pay in respect of the period of a year ending with the relevant date:

  • Provided that where he was entitled to pensionable pay for part only of that period, the said aggregate shall be multiplied by the reciprocal of the fraction of the year for which he was entitled to pensionable pay.

(3) Where the amount of a member of a police force’s average pensionable pay, determined in accordance with paragraph (2), is less than the amount it would have been had he not suffered a temporary reduction in rate of pay by way of punishment, it shall be increased by the difference between the two said amounts.

(4) Where the amount of a member of a police force’s average pensionable pay, determined in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3), is less than the amount it would have been had the relevant date been the corresponding date in one of the two preceding years (whichever year yields the higher amount), it shall be increased by the difference between the two said amounts.

(5) Where an award is made to or in respect of a member of a police force the relevant date for the purpose of determining his average pensionable pay shall be—

(a)in the case of a regular policeman, the date of his last day of service as such in the force of the police authority by whom the award is payable;

(b)in the case of an auxiliary policeman, the date of the last day of the continuous period of active service as such during which he received the injury which resulted in disablement or death;

(c)in the case of an overseas policeman who is not a reversionary member of a home police force, the date of the last day of the tour of overseas service during which he received the injury which resulted in disablement or death.

(6) Where a regular policeman has served as a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary on or after 1st May 1970 and during part of the period of 3 years ending with the date mentioned in paragraph (5)(a), then paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) shall have effect in his case as if any reference in paragraph (2) to pensionable pay included a reference to such pay within the meaning of the Royal Ulster Constabulary pensions legislation.

(7) For the purposes of these Regulations, a serviceman shall be deemed to be entitled, in respect of his period of relevant service in the armed forces, to the pay to which he would have been entitled if he had continued to serve in his former force.

(8) Where for the purpose of calculating an award to a widow, child or dependent relative it is necessary to determine average pensionable pay for a week, it shall be taken to be average pensionable pay divided by 52⅙.

(9) Paragraph (2) has effect subject to paragraph 5(4)(c) of Part VII of Schedule J.

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