7. Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a member of an overseas corps before becoming such had been engaged in the performance of police duties in any country or territory outside Great Britain, and that under legislation in force in that country or territory grants were, at the time he became such a member, payable to or in respect of persons similarly engaged on their retirement or, as the case may be, death, the Secretary of State may in accordance with any agreement made with that person in consideration of his becoming a member of an overseas corps, pay awards, in addition to any award payable under these Regulations, to or in respect of that person, on such conditions and of such a nature and amount as will ensure that the awards and any grants under the said legislation taken together are on the whole not less favourable to the person concerned than they would have been if the said police duties had been performed as a regular member of a home police force and the member of the overseas corps had been a reversionary member of a home police force.
8. Where a member of a Scottish police force immediately before 5th July 1948 held the rank of lieutenant and on ceasing to be a member of a police force held the rank of chief inspector, his widow and any child of his shall be entitled to receive the like awards as if, on ceasing to be a member of a police force, he had held the rank of superintendent.
9. Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, the police forces maintained before 1st April 1967 for the three divisions of Lincolnshire shall be treated for the purposes of these Regulations as having been one force and Regulation A15 shall have effect accordingly.
10. In relation to a person who served as a member of the River Tyne police force (which was dissolved on 1st July 1968 by the Port of Tyne Reorganisation Scheme 1967(1)), the police force for the Durham police area shall for the purposes of these Regulations, be deemed to be the same force as the River Tyne police force.