UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
2003 No. 2716
POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES
PENSIONS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Police Pensions (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003
Made 22th October 2003
Laid before Parliament 24th October 2003
Coming into force 15th November 2003
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1 to 7 of the Police Pensions Act 1976, with the consent of the Treasury, and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, hereby makes the following Regulations:
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Citation, commencement and extentCitation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 15th November 2003 but shall have effect from 1st April 2002.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.
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Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987
Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987
2. The Police Pensions Regulations 1987shall be amended in accordance with the Schedule to these Regulations.
Caroline Flint
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Home Office
14th October 2003
Jim Murphy
John Heppell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
22nd October 2003
SCHEDULE
Regulation 2
AMENDMENT OF THE POLICE PENSIONS REGULATIONS 1987
1. In regulation A17 (retirement)—
(a) sub-paragraph (1)(f) is omitted; and
(b) paragraph (4) is omitted.
2. In regulation F3 (previous service reckonable without payment) sub-paragraph (1)(g) is omitted.
3. In regulation F8A (former police authority to provide certificate of the amount of pensionable service giving entitlement to pension)—
(a) for paragraph (1) there is substituted—
“1 This regulation shall apply where, on or after 31st March 1996, a regular policeman—
(a) by reason of previous service in a police force becomes entitled to reckon pensionable service either—
(i) by virtue of regulation F3(1)(a), or
(ii) by virtue of regulation F5 in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (2) of that regulation (including that paragraph as it has effect by virtue of paragraph (3) thereof), or
(b) has left a police force and joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland with such consent as is mentioned in regulation A17(2) and the police authority for Northern Ireland is contingently liable to make payments to him under the Police Service of Northern Ireland pensions legislation.”; and
(b) sub-paragraph (5)(c)...
