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Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2716

POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

PENSIONS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Police Pensions (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003

Made

22nd October 2003

Laid before Parliament

24th October 2003

Coming into force

15th November 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1 to 7 of the Police Pensions Act 1976( 1 ), with the consent of the Treasury( 2 ), and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 15th November 2003 but shall have effect from 1st April 2002( 3 ).

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.

Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987

2.The Police Pensions Regulations 1987( 4 ) shall be amended in accordance with the Schedule to these Regulations.

Caroline Flint

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Home Office

14th October 2003

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Jim Murphy

John Heppell

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

22nd October 2003

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE AMENDMENT OF THE POLICE PENSIONS REGULATIONS 1987

1. In regulation A17 (retirement)—

(a) sub-paragraph (1)(f) is omitted; and

(b) paragraph (4) is omitted.

2. In regulation F3 (previous service reckonable without payment) sub-paragraph (1)(g) is omitted.

3. In regulation F8A (former police authority to provide certificate of the amount of pensionable service giving entitlement to pension)—

(a) for paragraph (1) there is substituted—

“ (1) This regulation shall apply where, on or after 31st March 1996, a regular policeman—

(a) by reason of previous service in a police force becomes entitled to reckon pensionable service either—

(i) by virtue of regulation F3(1)(a), or

(ii) by virtue of regulation F5 in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (2) of that regulation (including that paragraph as it has effect by virtue of paragraph (3) thereof), or

(b) has left a police force and joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland with such consent as is mentioned in regulation A17(2) and the police authority for Northern Ireland is contingently liable to make payments to him under the Police Service of Northern Ireland pensions legislation. ” ; and

(b) sub-paragraph (5)(c) is omitted.

4. Regulation J3A (transfers to the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad: prevention of duplication of entitlement) is omitted.

5. In regulation K4 (withdrawal of pension during service as a regular policeman) sub-paragraph (1)(b) is omitted.

6. In Schedule A (glossary of expressions) the definition “police force” is omitted.

( 1 )

1976 c. 35 ; section 1 is amended by section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10) , section 103 and paragraph 28 of Schedule 7 to the Police Act 1996 and section 1(1) of the Police and Firemen’s Pensions Act 1997 (c. 52) . Functions under the Act as regards Scotland are transferred by S.I. 1999/1750 , article 2 and Schedule 1.

( 2 )

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

( 3 )

Retrospective effect is permitted by section 1(5) of the Police Pensions Act 1976.

( 4 )

S.I. 1987/257 ; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1998/577 .

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