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1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Vehicle and Driving Licences (Compensation to Officers) Regulations 1977 and shall come into operation on 2nd September 1977.
(2) Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, the Vehicle and Driving Licences (Compensation to Officers) Regulations 1970(1) are hereby revoked.
(3) Nothing in these regulations shall have effect, in relation to a person to whom the 1970 Regulations applied, so as to invalidate or otherwise affect the operation of those regulations or anything duly done or suffered under them before these regulations first applied to that person and thereafter anything so done or suffered as well as any payments for loss or diminution of emoluments made by or on behalf of the Secretary of State to or in respect of that person before the commencement of these regulations shall be taken into account by the Secretary of State in considering that person's case for the payment of compensation under these regulations, and any compensation to which that person becomes entitled under these regulations shall be reduced or where appropriate otherwise adjusted accordingly.
(4) Without prejudice and subject to paragraph (3) any claim made, review begun or decision notified under the 1970 Regulations before the commencement of these regulations shall be continued and have effect under these regulations as if it were made, begun or notified under the corresponding provisions of these regulations subject, however, to such adjustments or alterations as are appropriate to take account of the provisions of these regulations; and in particular where any person has become entitled to payment of any compensation under the 1970 Regulations, the Secretary of State shall under regulation 32(1)(b) carry out a review of his decision, or where the decision has been the subject of an appeal, the decision of the tribunal relating to that person as if the coming into operation of these regulations were an occurrence of a material change in the circumstances of the case, whether that person has required such a review under regulation 32(2) or not, and whether the said occurrence took place before or after the expiry of 6 months from the decision date within the meaning of regulation 32(4).
2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—
“accrued pension” in relation to a pensionable officer who has suffered loss of employment, means
if his last relevant pension scheme provided benefits in which he had a right to participate, the pension to which he would have become entitled under that scheme according to the method of calculation, modified where necessary for the purpose of giving effect to these regulations, prescribed by that scheme, if, at the date on which he ceased to be subject to that scheme, he had attained normal retiring age and complied with any requirement of that scheme as to a minimum period of qualifying service or contribution and completed any additional contributory payments or payments in respect of added years which he was in the course of making; and
in any other case, such portion of the pension (if any) of which he had reasonable expectations as the Secretary of State considers equitable, having regard to any practice of the authority or body by whom he was employed on the day immediately preceding the loss, the officer's age, the length of his employment at the date of loss and all the other circumstances of the case;
“accrued retiring allowance”, in relation to a pensionable officer who has suffered loss of employment, means
if his last relevant pension scheme provided benefits in which he has a right to participate, any lump sum payment to which he would have become entitled under that scheme according to the method of calculation (modified where necessary for the purpose of giving effect to these regulations) prescribed by that scheme if, at the date on which he ceased to be subject to that scheme, he had attained normal retiring age and complied with any requirement of that scheme as to a minimum period of qualifying service or contribution and completed any additional contributory payments or payments in respect of added years which he was in the course of making; and
in any other case, such portion of the lump sum payment (if any) of which he had reasonable expectations as the Secretary of State considers equitable, having regard to any practice of the authority or body by whom he was employed on the day immediately preceding the loss, the officer's age, the length of his employment at the date of loss and all the other circumstances of the case;
“added years”, in relation to a person who suffers loss of employment, means
in the case of a pensionable employee, any additional years of service being purchased by him in his employment immediately prior to the loss in question under regulation D10 or D11 of the Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974(2) or, in Scotland, of the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1974(3) or, under any of the former regulations within the meaning of regulation A4 of either of the said sets of superannuation regulations of 1974 and includes any additional years of service which having been granted under any provision similar to that referred to in either of the said regulations D10 or D11 were being so purchased under or by virtue of interchange rules, and
in the case of any other person, any additional years of service, similar to those mentioned in paragraph (a) of this definition, being purchased by him under the last relevant pension scheme, being in either case additional years which were being purchased partly at the expense of the employer and partly at the expense of the person under arrangements which were entered into before the employer either informed him in writing that his employment was to be terminated or was likely to be terminated or gave him written notice of termination of his employment;
“additional contributory payments” means
additional contributory payments of the kind referred to in regulation D6, D7 or D8 of the Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974 or, in Scotland, in the correspondingly numbered regulations of the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1974, or under any of the former regulations within the meaning of the said regulation A4, or
any similar payments made under the last relevant pension scheme as a condition of—
reckoning any period of employment as service or as a period of contribution for the purposes of the scheme, or
reckoning non-contributing service as contributing service (which expressions have the same meaning as in the scheme) for the purposes of the scheme, or
increasing the length at which any period of service or of contribution would be reckonable for the purpose of calculating a benefit under the scheme, or
any payments similar to any of those mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs made in pursuance of interchange rules;
“compensation question” means
as to a person's entitlement to compensation for loss of employment or for loss or diminution of emoluments, or
as to the manner of a person's employment or the comparability of his duties;
“emoluments”
“enactment”
“fund authority” in relation to any person, means
“interchange rules” means
“local authority” means
“long-term compensation” means
“material date”, in relation to any person who has suffered loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments, means
“minimum pensionable age” means
“national service” means
“normal retiring age” means
“officer”
“pensionable employee”
“pensionable officer”, in relation to a person who has suffered loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments, means
“pension scheme”, in relation to a pensionable officer, means
“reckonable service”, in relation to a person, means
“the 1970 Regulations” means
“relevant employment” means
under the Crown or in the service of a local authority; or
by any authority or body for the purposes of the Crown or of local government in Great Britain; or
under any officer employed as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of this definition for the purposes of the functions of the employing authority or body; or
preceding any of the foregoing employments which was reckonable for the purposes of the last relevant pension scheme;
but, except for national service and war service, does not include service in the armed forces of the Crown;
“resettlement compensation” means
“retirement compensation” means
“the Secretary of State”, except in paragraph 8 of Schedule 2, means
“tribunal” means
“war service” means
(2) Where under any provision of these regulations an annual value is to be assigned to a capital sum or a capital value to an annual amount—
(a)the annual or capital value shall be ascertained in accordance with the tables set out in Schedule 1 insofar as they provide for the particular case;
(b)where the said tables do not provide for a case in which an annual value is to be assigned to a capital sum or a capital value to an annual amount, the annual or capital value shall be the value as may be agreed between the Secretary of State and the person to whom the capital sum or annual amount is payable; and
(c)for the purpose of determining the application of the said tables, the headings and the note to each table shall be treated as part of the table.
(3) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, references to any enactment shall be construed as references thereto as amended, re-enacted, applied or modified by any subsequent enactment.
(4) References in these regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule shall, unless the reference is to a regulation of or a Schedule to specified regulations, be construed as references to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these regulations.
(5) References in any of these regulations to a numbered paragraph shall, unless the reference is to a paragraph of a specified regulation, be construed as references to the paragraph bearing that number in the first mentioned regulation.
(6) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and, subject to regulation 1(3) and (4), as if for the purposes of section 38 of that Act those regulations were an Act of Parliament and the Regulations revoked by regulation 1(2) were Acts of Parliament thereby repealed.
(1970 I, p. 1125).
(1974 I, p. 1986).
(1974 II, p. 3093).
(1970 I, p. 1125).