The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Pension contributions and entitlement: consequential provisions

7.—(1) The Police Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulations 4(1) and 5(1), after “serving as a regular policeman” there shall be inserted “and in respect of whom pension contributions are payable under regulation G2(1) of the principal Regulations”.

(3) In regulation 5(2), after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the word “or” and the following sub-paragraph:

“(c) the date on which any election made by him under regulation G4(1) of the principal Regulations takes effect,”.

(4) For regulation 5(4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(4) In the case of a regular policeman who has elected to make payment under this regulation and who–

(a) having retired with an ill-health pension before his retirement date, resumes service as such, or

(b) having made an election under regulation G4(1) of the principal Regulations, cancels that election in accordance with paragraph (5) of that regulation,

the periodical contributions shall again become payable and shall continue as provided in paragraph (2).”.

(5) In regulation 8(1)–

(a) after “save that where” there shall be inserted “(a)”, and

(b) after “regulation 7” there shall be inserted “, or (b) he had made an election under regulation G4(1) of the principal Regulations which was subsequently cancelled under paragraph (5) of that regulation,”.

(6) After regulation 8(1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

“(1A) Paragraph (1) shall not have effect in relation to a regular policeman who has at any time made an election under regulation G4(1) of the principal Regulations which has not been cancelled under paragraph (5) of that regulation.”.

(7) For regulation 8(2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a regular policeman who has made an election under regulation 3 and paid a lump sum or commenced payment of periodical contributions in accordance with that election–

(a) ceases to be a member of a police force in circumstances other than those set out in paragraph (1) and with no entitlement to an award by way of repayment of his aggregate pension contributions other than an award under paragraph 8 of Part I of Schedule J to the principal Regulations, or

(b) makes an election under regulation G4(1) of the principal Regulations,

he shall be entitled to reckon–

(i) in the case of a lump sum payment, all the additional benefits which he elected to purchase, and

(ii) in the case of payment of periodical contributions, a proportion of such benefits determined in accordance with the formula referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of Part II of the Schedule.”.

(1)

S.I. 1987/2215.