Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000
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2000 No. 843
POLICE
The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Made 20th March 2000
Laid before Parliament 30th March 2000
Coming into force 1st May 2000
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1 of the Police Pensions Act 19761, with the consent of the Treasury2and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st May 2000, but–
(a) regulation 3(1) to (8) (so far as those paragraphs relate to maternity leave) shall have effect as from 10th June 1994;
(b) regulation 3(1) to (8) (so far as those paragraphs do not have effect in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above) shall have effect as from 1st September 1995.
Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987
2. Subject to regulation 4, the Police Pensions Regulations 19873(“the principal Regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of regulation 3 and any reference in those provisions to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation so numbered in the principal Regulations.
Unpaid sick leave and maternity leave
3.—(1) In regulation F1(1), for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs:
“(a)
“(a) any period of unpaid maternity leave granted in the case of a woman which ended before 27th February 1986;
(b)
(b) any period of unpaid maternity leave granted in the case of a woman falling on or after 27th February 1986 which ended before 10th June 1994 in respect of which the conditions specified in paragraph (1A) are not satisfied;
(c)
(c) any period of unpaid maternity leave falling on or after 10th June 1994 (not being a period which falls within the first 14 weeks of any period of maternity leave taken by a person in respect of whom no election under regulation G4 was effective immediately before the commencement of that period of unpaid maternity leave) in respect of which the conditions specified in paragraph (1B) are not satisfied;
(d)
(d) any period of unpaid sick leave taken after 31st August 1995 in respect of which the conditions specified in paragraph (1C) are not satisfied;
(e)
(e) any other period of unpaid leave falling on or after 27th February 1986 except such a period taken by a person who ceased to serve as a regular policeman before 1st September 1988.”.
(2) In regulation F1(1A), for “(a)(ii)” there shall be substituted “ (b)”.
(3) After regulation F1(1A) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:
“1B The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of the proviso to paragraph (1) are that the person concerned–
(a) was serving as a regular policeman during the period immediately preceding a period of maternity leave which includes the period of unpaid maternity leave in question and no election under regulation G4 was effective in respect of that person immediately before the commencement of that period of unpaid leave;
(b) in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1D) pays to the police authority a sum equal to the sum of the pension contributions which would have been payable for the period of unpaid maternity leave in question if her notional pensionable pay during that period had been at the same rate as her pensionable pay (including any statutory maternity pay payable to her under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19924) immediately before the commencement of the period of unpaid maternity leave which constituted or included the period in question.
1C The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (d) of the proviso to paragraph (1) are that the person concerned—
(a) was serving as a regular policeman during the period immediately preceding a period of sick leave which includes th eperiod of unpaid sick leave in question and no election under regulation G4 was effective in respect of that person immediately before the commencement of that period of unpaid leave;
(b) in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1D) pays to the police authority a sum equal to the sum of the pension contributions which would have been payable for the period of unpaid sick leave in question if his notional pensionable pay during that period had been at the same rate as his pensionable pay immediately before the commencement of the period of unpaid sick leave which constituted or included the period in question;
(c) that the period of unpaid sick leave in question–
(i) does not exceed six months; and
(ii) when aggregated with any other period or periods of unpaid sick leave which fulfils, or all of which fulfil, the conditions...
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