The Police Pensions (Descriptions of Service) Order 2010

Amendment to the Police Pensions Act 1976

2.—(1) The Police Pensions Act 1976 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 7(2) (persons eligible for police pensions)(1), before paragraph (d) insert—

“(ch) the Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency;”.

(3) In section 11 (interpretation)(2)—

(a) in subsection (1) (references to membership of a police force etc), before paragraph (c) insert—

“(bh) service as the Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency;”;

(b) in subsection (2) (meaning of “police authority”), in paragraph (b), after “(b)” insert “, (bh)”;

(c) in subsection (3) (meaning of “police force”)—

(i) in paragraph (b), before “(b)” insert “(bh),”;

(ii) after “serving” insert “or, in the case of service such as is mentioned in subsection (1)(bh), the department of the Secretary of State”;

(d) after subsection (7) insert—

“(8)   References in this Act to the Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency, and to service as such, have effect only in relation to cases in which the person in question—

(a) has held the office of constable, and

(b) immediately before the appointment as Chief Inspector took effect, was serving as a member of a police force (whether or not as a constable).”.

(1)

Section 7(2) was amended by the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), the Police Act 1996, the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c. 32), the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16), the International Development Act 2002 (c. 1), the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), the Safeguarding Vulnerable groups Act 2006 (c. 47) and the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48) so as to reflect the addition of further descriptions of service to section 11(1) by virtue of the same enactments.

(2)

Section 11(1) was amended as described in the footnote relating to section 7(2); consequential amendments were made by the same enactments to section 11(2) and (3). Section 11(6) was inserted by the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30), and section 11(7) by the Police and Justice Act 2006.