The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENTS OF THE POLICE PENSIONS REGULATIONS 1987

1.  In regulation A9(2) (apportionment of pensionable service reckonable by reason of service of employment before or after a particular date for the purposes of calculating awards to or in respect of a regular policeman) after the words “a regular policeman” there are inserted the words “or for the purposes of regulation G6”.

2.  In regulation B1(3)(ba)(1) (entitlement to pensions of certain police officers who retire at end of fixed term appointments) for the words from “and either” onwards there are substituted the words “(or, if such a term has been extended, at the end of the appointment for the extended term)”.

3.—(1) In paragraph (c) of the proviso to regulation F1(1) (reckoning of pensionable service during maternity leave) for the words “14 weeks” there are substituted the words “18 weeks”.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) has effect in relation to any period of maternity leave falling on or after 15th December 1999.

4.—(1) Regulation G6 (payments by women members to enhance widowers' awards) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (b) for the words “includes service” there are substituted the words “includes pensionable service that is reckonable by reason of service or employment”, and

(b) in the words following that sub-paragraph for the words “service before” there are substituted the words “pensionable service that is reckonable by reason of service or employment before”.

(3) At the end of paragraph (3) there are inserted the words

• “or

  (c)

  if such contributions have ceased to be payable either before or during that period and again become payable more than 2 years after the date of cessation, but on or before the date on which the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2003 come into force, that date, or

  (d)

  if such contributions have ceased to be payable either before or during that period and again become payable more than 2 years after the date of cessation, but after the date on which the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2003 come into force, the date on which they again become payable.”.

(4) For paragraph (4) there is substituted—

“(4) In a case where the material date is the date given by paragraph (3)(a) or (b), the additional contributions to be paid are calculated, subject to paragraphs (6) to (11), in accordance with the Table in paragraph (18) by reference to the whole of the woman’s pensionable service reckonable by reason of service or employment before 17th May 1990.

(4A) In a case where the material date is the date given by paragraph (3)(c) or (d), the additional contributions to be paid are such amounts as are determined in accordance with such guidance and Tables as the Government Actuary may issue for the purpose or, in any case where that guidance indicates that special considerations apply, such amounts as the Government Actuary determines for the case in question.”.

(5) At the beginning of paragraph (5) there are inserted the words “In a case where the material date is the date given by paragraph (3)(a) or (b),”.

(6) In paragraphs (7)(b), (10)(b) and (14) for the word “service” there are substituted the words “pensionable service”.

(7) At the beginning of paragraph (13)(a) there are inserted the words “except where the payments are made in pursuance of an election for which the material date is that given by paragraph (3)(c) or (d),”.

(8) In paragraph (15) after the words “pensionable service”, in both places where they occur, there are inserted the words “reckonable by reason of service or employment”.

(9) In the Table in paragraph (18)—

(a) after the words “pensionable service”, in the first place where they occur, there are inserted the words “reckonable by reason of service or employment”, and

(b) after those words, in the second place where they occur, there are inserted the words “so reckonable”.

(1)

Regulation B1(3)(ba) is amended by S.I. 2002/2529.