Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

43 Provisions as to police pensions

(1) Subsection (2) of section one of the Police Pensions Act, 1948 (which enables regulations made under that section to provide that where a person ceases to be a member of a police force in order to undertake service under the National Service Act, 1948, the period of his service thereunder, and such further period, if any, as may be specified in the regulations, may be treated as a period of service as a member of a police force) shall have effect as if for the words " where a person ceases to be a member of a police force in order to undertake compulsory national service " there were substituted the words " where a person immediately before he undertakes compulsory national service is a member of a police force ".

(2) The said subsection (2), as amended by the last preceding subsection, shall apply in relation to persons who undertake service of a description specified in the First Schedule to this Act other than compulsory national service, or attend for hourly instruction as defined in the last preceding section, as it applies in relation to persons who undertake compulsory national service.

(3) In the definition of the expression " compulsory national service " in subsection (1) of section eight of the Police Pensions Act, 1948, for the words " work or training in pursuance of an order of a tribunal under section five of the National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939 (which relates to conscientious objectors) ", there shall be substituted the words " work or training in pursuance of an order made or direction given under Part I of the National Service Act, 1948, as respects a conditionally registered conscientious objector. "