Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1998
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1998/577 |
| Year | 1998 |
1998 No. 577
POLICE
The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1998
Made 4th March 1998
Laid before Parliament 10th March 1998
Coming into force 31th March 1998
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 1998 and shall come into force on 31st March 1998.
Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987
2. The Police Pensions Regulations 19873shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations, and, except in regulation 5(4) below, any reference in those provisions to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation so numbered in the Police Pensions Regulations 1987.
Transfers to and from the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad
3.—(1) In regulation A17—
(a)
(a) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:
“1 A reference in these Regulations to retirement includes a reference—
(a) to the services of a member of a police force being dispensed with under regulations for the time being in force under section 50 of the Police Act 19964or section 26 of the Police (Scotland) Act 19675(other than regulations relating to the maintenance of discipline);
(b) to an auxiliary policeman ceasing to be called up for active service; and
(c) to the termination of a tour of overseas service otherwise than by dismissal or transfer,
but does not include a reference to leaving a force—
(d) on transferring from one force to another;
(e) on joining the Royal Ulster Constabulary with such consent as is mentioned in paragraph (2); or
(f) on joining the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad,
and a reference to a continuous period of service is a reference to a period of service uninterrupted by any such retirement.”;
(b)
(b) in paragraph (2), for “paragraph (1)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (1)(e)”; and
(c)
(c) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:
“4 For the purposes of Parts B, C and D, apart from regulations B5, B6, C4, C6, C7 and D4, a regular policeman who leaves a police force on joining the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad without making a written request to the appropriate Service Authority for the pensionable service that he is entitled to reckon by reason of service as a member of a police force to be reckonable for the purposes of the pension scheme of the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad, and who accordingly has preserved rights under these regulations, shall be regarded as retiring, or ceasing to be a regular policeman, when he retires from, or ceases to be a member of, the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad (unless he resumes service as a regular policeman), and accordingly in Parts B, C and D, except in regulations B5, B6, C4, C6, C7 and D4—
(a) any reference to a regular policeman or a member of a police force shall be treated as including a reference to the Director General or a police member of the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad with (in either case) such preserved rights;
(b) any reference to a police authority shall be treated, in relation to any such person with preserved rights, as referring to the appropriate Service Authority;
(c) any reference to pension contributions payable under regulation G2(1) shall be treated, in relation to any such person with preserved rights, as referring to contributions payable to the pension scheme of the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad; and
(d) any reference to a regular policeman who has or had made an election under regulation G4(1) which has or had effect at a specified time shall be treated as including a reference to any such person with preserved rights who is not or was not making contributions to the pension scheme of the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad at the specified time.”.
(2) In regulation F3(1), after the proviso to sub-paragraph (f) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph:
“;
(g)
(g) where on or after 1st April 1998 he left the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad for the purpose of becoming a regular policeman in a home police force, any period of pensionable service which was reckonable by him...
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