Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1997
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1997/1429 |
| Year | 1997 |
1997 No. 1429 (S. 109)
POLICE
The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1997
Made 2nd June 1997
Laid before Parliament 9th June 1997
Coming into force 30th June 1997
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1 and 3 of the Police Pensions Act 19761, and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, and with the consent of the Treasury2hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1997.
(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 30th June 1997 but shall have effect from 13th December 1995.
(3) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Police Pensions Regulations 19873.
Pensionable and average pensionable pay
2. Regulation G1(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting after the words “those Regulations)” the words–
“or so much of his pay at that rate as is attributable to his determined hours (within the meaning of regulation 1(6) of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 19764as applied by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1B to those Regulations)”.
Part-time service
3. Schedule A to the principal Regulations is amended–
(a) by inserting at the end of the definition of “the appropriate factor”–
“or the factor which was the appropriate factor within the meaning of regulation 1(6) or (7) of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976 as it applied by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1B to those Regulations”;
and
(b) by inserting at the end of the definition of “part-time service”–
“or pursuant to an appointment under regulation 2A of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976”.
Right to opt out of effect of provisions of these Regulations
4.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to any pension which is or may become payable under the principal Regulations to or in respect of a person who, having served as a member of a police force, has ceased so to serve or died before these Regulations come into force.
(2) Where, in a case to which this regulation applies, any provision of these Regulations would operate in relation to any person so as to place that person in a worse position than he would have been in if the provision had not...
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