Police Pensions Regulations 1973
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1973/428 |
| Year | 1973 |
1973 No. 428
POLICE
The Police Pensions Regulations 19739thMarch 1973
27thMarch 1973
1stApril 1973
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
CITATION, COMMENCEMENT, APPLICATION ETC.
1. Citation, commencement and effect.
2. Old cases.
3. Transitional and transitory 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 injury awards.
23. Deferred pension and award where no other award payable.
24. Commutation.
25. Allocation.
26. Limitation on right to commute or allocate part of pension.
PART IV
AWARDS ON DEATH
Widows
27. Widow's ordinary pension.
28. Widow's special award.
29. Widow's augmented award.
30. Widow's accrued pension.
31. Gratuity in lieu of pension.
32. Widow's award where no other award payable.
33. Limitation on award to widow with reference to date of marriage.
34. Limitation on award to widow living apart from husband.
35. Termination of widow's pension on remarriage.
Adult Dependent Relatives
36. Dependent relative's special pension.
Children
37. Child's ordinary allowance.
38. Child's special allowance.
39. Child's special gratuity.
40. Child's accrued allowance.
41. Gratuity in lieu of allowance.
42. Limitation on child's award.
General
43. Gratuities—relatives or estate.
44. Limitation on discretion to grant a gratuity in lieu of a pension or allowance.
45. Prevention of duplication.
PART V
PENSIONABLE SERVICE
46. Reckoning of pensionable service.
47. Current service.
48. Previous service reckonable without payment.
49. Previous service reckonable on payment.
50. Previous service reckonable at discretion of police authority.
51. Previous service reckonable under interchange arrangements.
52. Added years in case of chief constable displaced under Police Act 1946.
53. Certain service in the Orkney and Zetland police forces.
54. Approved service reckonable under former Acts.
PART VI
PENSIONABLE PAY, CONTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER ADDITIONAL AND FURTHER PAYMENTS
55. Pensionable pay.
56. Rate of payment of pension contributions.
57. Additional contributions—preserved provisions.
58. Additional and further payments by way of contributions—current provisions.
59. Additional and further payments by way of lump sum or reduction of pension.
60. Additional and further payments, etc., in the case of an ill-health pensioner.
61. Additional and further payments in the case of deceased policeman.
62. Provisions supplemental to Regulations 58 to 61.
63. Application of Part VI to persons with service otherwise than in a police force.
64. Method of payment of pension contributions.
PART VII
CANCELLATION, REVISION, REDUCTION, WITHDRAWAL AND FORFEITURE OF AWARDS
65. Cancellation of ill-health and injury pensions.
66. Reassessment of injury pension.
67. Reduction of pension in case of default.
68. Withdrawal of pension during employment as a regular policeman.
69. Forfeiture of award.
70. Discharge of liability of police authority.
PART VIII
DETERMINATION OF QUESTIONS
71. Reference of medical questions.
72. Appeal to medical referee.
73. Further reference to medical referee.
74. Refusal to be medically examined.
75. Appeal by a member of a home police force.
76. Appeal by overseas policeman, inspector of constabulary or central police officer.
77. Limitations on appeals.
PART IX
PAYMENT OF AWARDS AND TRANSFER VALUES
78. Authorities responsible for payment of awards.
79. Funds out of which and into which payments are to be made.
80. Payment and duration of awards.
81. Payment of awards otherwise than to person entitled.
82. Taxation of certain awards.
83. Transfer values payable on transfer between police forces.
84. Payments on transfer to the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
85. Transfer values payable under interchange arrangements.
PART X
COMPULSORY RETIREMENT
86. Compulsory retirement on account of age.
87. Compulsory retirement on grounds of efficiency of the force.
88. Compulsory retirement of regular policeman whose pension is reduced.
89. Compulsory retirement on grounds of disablement.
90. Effect of requirement to retire.
PART XI
SERVICEMEN
91. Servicemen to whom Part XI applies.
92. Awards to servicemen.
93. Awards on death of servicemen.
94. Application of Regulation 43.
95. Servicemen who resume service as regular policemen.
96. Servicemen who do not resume service in their former force.
97. Pensionable service.
98. Pension contributions, etc.
PART XII
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS IN SPECIAL CASES
99. Chief constables affected by an amalgamation scheme under the Police Act 1946.
100. Chief constables affected by local government reorganisation or an amalgamation scheme under the Police Act 1964.
101. Chief constables who joined or were transferred to a county police force.
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. Former members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
106. Regular policemen dismissed after 25 years' service.
PART XIII
APPLICATION OF PENSIONS (INCREASE) ACT 1971
107. Increase by reference to Pensions (Increase) Act 1971.
108. Duration of increase in child's allowance.
PART XIV
MISCELLANEOUS
109. Lincolnshire.
110. River Tyne police force.
111. Alterations in police areas.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1—OLD CASES REGULATIONS
SCHEDULE 2—POLICEMEN
Part I Policeman's ordinary pension.
Part II Policeman's ill-health pension.
Part III Policeman's short service pension.
Part IV Policeman's ill-health or short service gratuity.
Part V Policeman's injury awards.
Part VI Policeman's deferred pension.
Part VII Reduction of pension at insured pensionable age.
Part VIII Reduction of pension in specified cases.
Part IX Reduction of awards other than pensions.
SCHEDULE 3—WIDOWS AND ADULT DEPENDANTS
Part I Widow's ordinary pension.
Part II Transitional modifications of Part I.
Part III Widow's special pension.
Part IV Widow's accrued pension.
Part V Increase in widow's pension during first 13 weeks.
Part VI Widow's gratuity in lieu of pension.
Part VII Dependent relative's special pension.
SCHEDULE 4—CHILDREN
Part I Child's ordinary allowance.
Part II Child's special allowance.
Part III Child's accrued allowance.
Part IV Increase in child's allowance in certain cases during first 13 weeks.
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 AND FURTHER PAYMENTS
Part I Contributions.
Part II Lump sums.
SCHEDULE 8
Medical appeals.
SCHEDULE 9
Transfer values.
SCHEDULE 10
Limits in respect of awards to or in respect of servicemen.
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 1 and 5(4) of the Police Pensions Act 1948(a), as extended and amended by section 43 of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951(b), section 5(3) of the Overseas Service Act 1958(c) and Schedule 2 thereto, section 1(1) of the Police Pensions Act 1961(d), sections 40, 43(4), 45(4) and 63 of the Police Act 1964(e) and Schedules 6 and 9 thereto, section 11(7) of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967(f), sections 35 and 38(4) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(g), section 4(5) of the Police Act 1969(h) and sections 12, 15 and 29(1) of the Superannuation Act 1972(i) and Schedule 6 thereto, and after consultation with the Police Council for the United Kingdom, and, so far as Regulation 76 is concerned, with the Council on Tribunals, I hereby, with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service(j), make the following Regulations:—
PART I
CITATION, COMMENCEMENT, APPLICATION ETC.
Citation, commencement and effect
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions Regulations 1973.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on 1st April 1973 and shall have effect as from 1st April 1972.
Old cases
2.—(1) The old cases Regulations, that is to say the Regulations made under the Act before the making of these Regulations and set out in Schedule 1, shall cease to have effect except in the case of an award or payment to or in respect of, or relating to—
(a) a person who retired or otherwise ceased to be a member of a police force before 1st April 1972, or
(b) a person, being a serviceman who did not resume service as a regular policeman, whose period of relevant service in the armed forces ended before 1st April 1972,
including an award on the death of such a person on or after the said date.
(2) Nothing in these Regulations shall apply in such a case as is mentioned in paragraph (1).
Transitional and transitory provisions
3.—(1) Subject to Regulation 2(2) and the provisions of the Police Pensions (Transitory Provisions) Regulations 1973(k), these Regulations shall have effect as if anything done, or treated as done, under or for the purposes of the old cases Regulations had been done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of these Regulations.
(a) 1948 c. 24.
(b) 1951 c. 65.
(c) 1958 c. 14.
(d) 1961 c. 35.
(e) 1964 c. 48.
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