The Police Pensions (War Service) (Transferees) Regulations 1985

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations supplement the Police Pensions Regulations 1973 and the Police Pensions (War Service) Regulations 1979 (“the 1979 Regulations”). The Regulations make provision for policemen and former policemen who have been unable to reckon their war service for pension purposes under the 1979 Regulations solely because they have transferred between the police pension scheme and other pension schemes of the kinds referred to in Regulation 3 of and Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Regulation 3 identifies those public service pension schemes in respect of which police authorities can pay or receive additional transfer values to enable war service to be reckoned.

Regulation 4 identifies by reference to the kinds of service mentioned in Schedule 2 those policemen who are qualified to elect to count war service without the receipt by the police authority of a transfer value.

Regulation 5 provides for the reckoning of war service in the case of personal benefits only by policemen to whom Regulation 4 applies. Regulation 6 identifies those policemen who are eligible to reckon war service by virtue of the payment of a transfer value. Regulation 7 provides for the reckoning of war service in the case of personal benefits only by policemen to whom Regulation 6 applies.

Regulation 8 makes provision in the case of an election to reckon war service for widows' and children's benefits as well as for personal benefits.

Regulation 9 identifies those policemen in respect of whom, on receipt of the information specified in Regulation 10, a police authority may pay an additional transfer value to permit their war service to reckon in another scheme. Regulation 10 provides for the payment of an additional transfer value, calculated in accordance with Regulation 11.

Schedule 1 modified the 1979 Regulations in their application to policemen by virtue of these Regulations. Schedule 2 sets out the categories of qualifying service for the purposes of Regulation 4. Schedule 3 lists the age factors referred to in Regulations 7(2)(b) and 11(b) for the purpose of calculating respectively the amount of war service reckonable under Regulation 7 and the additional transfer value payable under Regulation 10(1).

The Regulations have effect from 1st April 1978 (retrospection is authorised by section 1(5) of the Police Pensions Act 1976).