Police Pensions (Lump Sum Payments to Widows) Regulations 1985
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1985/1318 |
| Year | 1985 |
1985 No. 1318
POLICE
The Police Pensions (Lump Sum Payments to Widows) Regulations 198515thAugust 1985
28thAugust 1985
2ndDecember 1985
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 1, 3 and 5 of the Police Pensions Act 1976 (a), and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, I hereby, with the consent of the Treasury (b), make the following Regulations, which provide for payments corresponding to payments under section 1(1) of the Pensioners' Payments and Social Security Act 1979(c) as that Act has effect by virtue of the Pensioners' Lump Sum Payments Order 1985 (d):—
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Lump Sum Payments to Widows) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 2nd December 1985.
2. In these Regulations any reference to the old cases Regulations is a reference to the Police Pensions Regulations 1971(e), in so far as they continue to have effect (f).
3. These Regulations shall be construed as one with the old cases Regulations which shall have effect as if Regulation 4 of these Regulations were included therein.
4.—(1) This Regulation shall apply to a widow who is in receipt of a pension increased under any of the following provisions of the old cases Regulations, namely under—
(a) Regulation 30 (discretionary increase in widow's ordinary pension);
(b) Regulation 33 (discretionary increase in widow's special pension); or
(c) Regulation 35 (discretionary increase in widow's award under former Acts),
(a) 1976 c. 35, as amended by section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10).
(b) Formerly the Minister for the Civil Service: see S.I. 1981/1670.
(c) 1979 c. 48.
(d) S.I. 1985/1189.
(e) S.I. 1971/232; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1971/1466.
(f) See S.I. 1973/428.
where the increase is payable in respect of a period which includes a day in the week beginning with 2nd December 1985.
(2) Except where a widow to whom this Regulation applies is entitled to a payment by virtue of the Pensioners' Lump Sum Payments Order 1985, the police authority shall pay her a gratuity of £10.
(3) For the purposes of Regulation 49 of the old cases Regulations (prevention of duplication), a gratuity under this Regulation shall be ignored.
Leon Brittan, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Home Office.
9th August 1985.
We consent,
John Major, Donald Thompson, Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.
15th August 1985.
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