The Police Pensions Regulations 2015

Pensionable service under a police scheme

3.—(1) For the purpose of this Schedule, a transition member (T) is in pensionable service under a police scheme while T is on unpaid leave from the employment to which that service relates.

(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1)—

“a police scheme” means—

(a)

the 1987 scheme;

(b)

the 1988 NI police pension scheme;

(c)

the 2006 scheme;

(d)

the existing Scotland police pension scheme;

(e)

the 2009 NI police pension scheme;

(f)

the 2015 Scotland police pension scheme; or

(g)

the 2015 NI police pension scheme; and

“unpaid leave”, in relation to employment to which pensionable service under a police scheme relates, means—

(a)

a career break; or

(b)

any other period of unpaid leave—

(i)

that does not exceed 5 years; and

(ii)

during which the employment relationship continues(1).

(1)

See regulation 22 for periods of unpaid leave during which the employment relationship continues.