Police Pensions Regulations 1971
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1971 No. 232
POLICE
The Police Pensions Regulations 197111thFebruary 1971
15thFebruary 1971
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
CITATION, COMMENCEMENT, REVOCATIONS ETC.
1. Citation and commencement.
2. Revocations.
3. Transitional provisions.
PART II
INTERPRETATION
4. Meanings assigned to certain expressions.
5. Meaning of certain expressions related to the operation of the National Insurance Acts.
6. Meaning of certain expressions in relation to persons who are not members of a home police force.
7. Persons who have been members of a police force.
8. Transfers.
9. Retirement.
10. Persons treated as being in receipt of a pension.
11. Aggregate pension contributions.
12. Injury received in the execution of duty.
13. Disablement.
14. Disablement or death the result of an injury.
15. Relevant service in the armed forces.
16. References to awards.
17. References to provisions.
18. Application of Interpretation Act 1889.
PART III
AWARDS ON RETIREMENT AND DISABLEMENT
19. Policeman's ordinary pension.
20. Policeman's ill-health award.
21. Policeman's short service award.
22. Policeman's supplemental pension.
23. Former provisions as to commutation of part of pension.
24. Current provisions as to commutation of part of pension.
25. Former provisions as to allocation of part of pension.
26. Current provisions as to allocation of part of pension.
27. Limitation on right to commute or allocate part of pension.
28. Award where no other award payable.
PART IV
AWARDS ON DEATH
Widows
29. Widow's ordinary pension.
30. Discretionary increase in widow's ordinary pension.
31. Widow's special pension.
32. Widow's augmented award.
33. Discretionary increase in widow's special pension.
34. Widow's award under former Acts.
35. Discretionary increase in widow's award under former Acts.
36. Gratuity in lieu of pension.
37. Widow's ordinary gratuity.
38. Limitation on award to widow with reference to date of marriage.
39. Limitation on award to widow living apart from husband.
40. Termination of widow's pension on remarriage.
Children
41. Child's ordinary allowance.
42. Child's special allowance.
43. Child's special gratuity.
44. Discretionary increase in child's ordinary or special allowance.
45. Gratuity in lieu of allowance.
46. Limitation on right to child's allowance.
General
47. Awards to dependent relatives or estate.
48. Limitation on discretion to grant a gratuity in lieu of a pension or allowance.
49. Prevention of duplication.
PART V
PENSIONABLE SERVICE
50. Reckoning of pensionable service.
51. Current service.
52. Previous service reckonable without payment.
53. Previous service reckonable on payment.
54. Previous service reckonable at discretion of police authority.
55. Previous service reckonable under interchange arrangements.
56. Added years in case of chief constable displaced under Police Act 1946.
57. Added years in case of displaced reversionary member of home police force.
58. Certain service in the Glasgow, Orkney and Zetland police forces.
59. Approved service reckonable under former Acts.
PART VI
PENSIONABLE PAY AND CONTRIBUTIONS
60. Pensionable pay.
61. Rate of payment of pension contributions.
62. Rate of payment of additional contributions in certain cases.
63. Application of Regulations 61 and 62 to persons with service otherwise than in a police force.
64. Method of payment of pension contributions.
PART VII
CANCELLATION, REVISION, REDUCTION AND WITHDRAWAL OF AWARDS
65. Cancellation of ill-health and supplemental pensions.
66. Reassessment of supplemental pension.
67. Reduction of pension in case of default.
68. Withdrawal of pension during employment as a regular policeman.
69. Discharge of liability of police authority on withdrawal of pension.
PART VIII
DETERMINATION OF QUESTIONS
70. Reference of medical questions.
71. Appeal to medical referee.
72. Further reference to medical referee.
73. Refusal to be medically examined.
74. Appeal by overseas policeman, inspector of constabulary or central police officer.
PART IX
PAYMENT OF AWARDS AND TRANSFER VALUES
75. Authorities responsible for payment of awards.
76. Funds out of which and into which payments are to be made.
77. Payment and duration of awards.
78. Payment of awards otherwise than to person entitled.
79. Transfer values payable on transfer between police forces.
80. Contributions between police authorities where no transfer value is payable.
81. Payments on transfer to the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
82. Transfer values payable under interchange arrangements.
PART X
COMPULSORY RETIREMENT
83. Compulsory retirement on account of age.
84. Compulsory retirement on grounds of efficiency of the force.
85. Compulsory retirement of regular policeman whose pension is reduced.
86. Compulsory retirement on grounds of disablement.
87. Effect of requirement to retire.
PART XI
SERVICEMEN
88. Servicemen to whom Part XI applies.
89. Awards to servicemen.
90. Awards on death of servicemen.
91. Application of Regulation 47.
92. Servicemen who resume service as regular policemen.
93. Servicemen who do not resume service in their former force.
94. Pensionable service.
95. Pension contributions.
PART XII
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS IN SPECIAL CASES
96. Persons who ceased to serve before 1st July 1949.
97. Certain persons serving on 1st July 1949.
98. Chief constables affected by an amalgamation scheme under the Police Act 1946.
99. Chief constables affected by local government reorganisation or an amalgamation scheme under the Police Act 1964.
100. Chief constables who joined or were transferred to a county police force.
101. Commissioner of police of the metropolis.
102. Certain ex-reversionary members of home police forces.
103. Members of an overseas corps with previous service outside Great Britain.
104. Former lieutenants in Scottish police forces.
105. Regular policemen dismissed after 25 years' service.
PART XIII
APPLICATION OF PENSIONS (INCREASE) ACTS
106. Application of Pensions (Increase) Acts 1944 and 1947.
107. Application of Pensions (Increase) Act 1952.
108. Application of Pensions (Increase) Act 1956.
109. Application of Pensions (Increase) Act 1959.
110. Application of Pensions (Increase) Act 1962.
111. Application of Pensions (Increase) Act 1965.
112. Application of Pensions (Increase) Act 1969.
113. Duration of increase in child's allowance.
PART XIV
MISCELLANEOUS
114. Lincolnshire.
115. River Tyne police force.
116. Alterations in police areas.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1—FORMER REGULATIONS REVOKED.
SCHEDULE 2—POLICEMEN
Part I Policeman's ordinary pension.
Part II Policeman's ill-health or short service award.
Part III Reduction of pension at insured pensionable age.
Part IV Reduction of pension payable to person paying pension contributions at a rate related to 6.25% of pensionable pay.
Part V Reduction of awards other than pensions.
Part VI Policeman's supplemental pension.
SCHEDULE 3—WIDOWS
Part I Widow's ordinary pension—standard rate.
Part II Widow's ordinary pension—preserved rate.
Part III Widow's special pension.
Part IV Widow's augmented special pension.
Part V Reduction of widow's pension in respect of national insurance benefit.
Part VI Discretionary increase in widow's pension.
Part VII Widow's gratuity in lieu of pension.
Part VIII Widow's ordinary gratuity.
SCHEDULE 4—CHILDREN
Part I Child's ordinary allowance.
Part II Child's special allowance.
Part III Discretionary increase in child's allowance.
Part IV Reduction of child's allowance.
Part V Child's gratuity in lieu of allowance.
SCHEDULE 5
Payment by policeman in respect of previous service other than police service.
SCHEDULE 6—INTERCHANGE ARRANGEMENTS
Part I Civil service and metropolitan civil staffs service.
Part II Local government, fire, education and health service.
Part III Other service or employment.
SCHEDULE 7
Additional pension contributions.
SCHEDULE 8
Medical appeals.
SCHEDULE 9
Transfer values.
SCHEDULE 10
Limits in respect of awards to or in respect of servicemen.
SCHEDULE 11
Preserved pensionable pay.
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 1, 3 and 5(4) 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, section 11(7) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967(g), sections 35 and 38(4) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(h) and section 4(5) of the Police Act 1969(i), and after consultation with the Police Council for the United Kingdom, and, so far as Regulation 74 is concerned, with the Council on Tribunals, 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:—
PART I
CITATION, COMMENCEMENT, REVOCATIONS ETC.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions Regulations 1971 and shall come into operation on 15th February 1971.
Revocations
2. The former Regulations, that is to say the Regulations made under the Act before the making of these Regulations, are hereby revoked to the extent that they have not heretofore been revoked by Regulations so made and, accordingly, the Regulations set out in Schedule 1 are hereby revoked.
(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. 28.
(h) 1967 c. 77.
(i) 1969 c. 63.
Transitional provisions
3.—(1) These Regulations shall have effect as if—
(a) anything done under or for the purposes of any provision of the former Regulations had been done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of these Regulations; and
(b)...
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