Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1971/583 |
| Year | 1971 |
1971 No. 583
POLICE
The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 19711stApril 1971
5thApril 1971
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 1 and 3 of the Police Pensions Act 1948(a) (read with Article 2(1) of the Minister for the Civil Service Order 1968(b)), as extended and amended by section 43 of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951(c), section 5(3) of the Overseas Service Act 1958(d) and Schedule 2 thereto, section 1(1) of the Police Pensions Act 1961(e), sections 40, 43(4), 45(4) and 63 of the Police Act 1964(f) and Schedules 6 and 9 thereto, sections 35 and 38(4) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(g) and section 4(5) of the Police Act 1969(h), and after consultation with the Police Council for the United Kingdom, I hereby, with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service, make the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:—
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1971 and shall come into operation on 5th April 1971.
2. At the end of Regulation 3 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1971(i) (transitional provisions) there shall be added the following paragraph:—
"(4) No payment shall be made under these Regulations on account of a widow's pension for a period before an amendment to these Regulations took effect save in so far as the said payment would have been so made had the amendment in question not been made.".
3. In Regulation 30(3) of the said Regulations of 1971 (discretionary increase in widow's ordinary pension) after the words "£5·00 a week" there shall be inserted the words "subject, however, to paragraph 4 of the said Part VI".
4. At the end of Regulation 33(3) of the said Regulations of 1971 (discretionary increase in widow's special pension) there shall be added the words "subject, however, to paragraph 4 of the said Part VI".
5. In Regulation 35(3) of the said Regulations of 1971 (discretionary increase in widow's award under former Acts) after the words "£5·00 a week" there shall be inserted the words "subject, however, to paragraph 4 of the said Part VI".
(a) 1948 c. 24.
(b) S.I. 1968/1656 (1968 III, p. 4485).
(c) 1951 c. 65.
(d) 1958 c. 14.
(e) 1961 c. 35.
(f) 1964 c. 48.
(g) 1967 c. 77.
(h) 1969 c. 63.
(i) S.I. 1971/232 (1971 I, p. 690).
6.—(1) In sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 1 of Part VI of Schedule 3 to the said...
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