41. In regulation 10 (reckoning of pensionable service)—
(a)after paragraph (1)(b) insert—
“(ba)any period of unpaid adoption leave, unpaid adoption support leave or unpaid maternity support leave taken on or after 1 September 2014 in respect of which the conditions specified in paragraph (2) are not satisfied,”,
(b)for paragraph (2) substitute—
“(2) The conditions referred in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) are that the person concerned—
(a)was serving as a regular police officer immediately before a period of maternity leave, parental leave, sick leave, adoption leave, adoption support leave or maternity support leave which includes the period of unpaid leave in question, and no election under regulation 9 was effective in respect of that person immediately before the commencement of that period of unpaid leave, and
(b)in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (4), pays to the police pension authority a sum equal to the sum of the pension contributions which would have been payable for the period of unpaid leave in question if the person’s notional pensionable pay during that period had been at the same rate as the person’s pensionable pay (including any statutory maternity paper, statutory adoption pay or statutory paternity pay payable under the Social Security and Contributions Act 1992(1)) immediately before the commencement of the period of unpaid leave which constituted or included the period in question.”.