Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 899
Police, England And Wales
Pensions, England And Wales
The Police Pensions (Descriptions of Service) Order 2010
Made
21st March 2010
Laid before Parliament
23rd March 2010
Coming into force
15th April 2010
The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 11A(1) of the Police Pensions Act 1976( 1 ).
In accordance with section 63(3) of the Police Act 1996( 2 ), the Secretary of State supplied a draft of this Order to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and took their representations into consideration before the Order was made.
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Police Pensions (Descriptions of Service) Order 2010.
(2) This Order shall come into force on 15th April 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)( 3 ), before paragraph (d) insert—
“ (ch) the Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency; ” .
(3) In section 11 (interpretation)( 4 )—
(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). ” .
Home Office
David Hanson
Minister of State
21st March 2010
1976 c. 35 . Section 11A was inserted by section 10(2) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26) , and extends to England and Wales.
1996 c. 16 . Section 63(3) was amended by section 10(3) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 so as to apply to an order made under section 11A of the Police Pensions Act 1976.
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.
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.