The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 733

POLICE

The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Made

26th April 1989

Laid before Parliament

10th May 1989

Coming into force

1st June 1989

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 1 of the Police Pensions Act 1976(1), and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, I hereby with the consent of the Treasury(2) make the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st June 1989.

2.—(1) The Police Pensions Regulations 1987(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation G1(1) (pensionable pay), at the end there shall be added the following provision–

• “Provided that, in the case of a person by whom pension contributions become payable under regulation G2 on or after 1st June 1989, no account shall be taken, for the purposes of determining his pensionable pay, of any amount by which that rate exceeds an annual rate of £60,000.

• In this paragraph a reference to contributions becoming payable is a reference to their becoming payable either for the first time or following any period in respect of which they were not payable.”.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

21st April 1989

We consent,

Kenneth Carlisle

David Lightbown

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

26th April 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 by limiting the rate of pay which may be counted for the purposes of determining the pensionable pay of a member of a police force to £60,000.

(1)

1976 c. 35, as amended by section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10).

(2)

Formerly the Minister for the Civil Service: see S.I. 1981/1670.

(3)

S.I. 1987/257, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.