The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Transfers

A16.  A reference in these Regulations to a regular policeman transferring from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to a regular policeman—

(a) leaving a home police force for the purpose of joining another home police force as a regular policeman and joining that other force in that capacity, where—

(i) not being the chief officer of police of, or a constable on probation in, the force first mentioned in this sub-paragraph, he leaves or left that force on or after 1st January 1963 for the purpose aforesaid, after giving a month’s notice in writing of his intention to do so to the police authority of that force or such shorter period of notice as may have been accepted by that authority on or after 15th February 1971, or

(ii) he left the said force before 1st January 1963 or, being the chief officer of police of, or a constable on probation in, the said force, he leaves or left that force on or after that date, in either case for the purpose aforesaid and with the written consent of the chief officer of police or, in the case of the chief officer of police, of the police authority of that force;

(b) leaving a home police force with the consent of the Secretary of State and with the written consent of the chief officer of police of that force acting with the consent of the police authority or, if he is the chief officer of police of that force, of the police authority, for the purpose of engaging for a tour of overseas service as a reversionary member of a home police force and engaging in such a tour of service;

(c) transferring or being transferred from one overseas corps to another;

(d) exercising his right of reversion to a home police force, under section 2(1) of the Police (Overseas Service) Act 1945(1), at the end of a tour of overseas service; or

(e) at the end of a tour of overseas service joining another home police force as a regular policeman subject, in the cases hereinafter mentioned, to his doing so with the consent so mentioned, namely—

(i) in the case of a person who was, at the time he left the home police force to which he had the right of reversion referred to in sub-paragraph (d), the chief officer of that force, the written consent of the police authority of that force;

(ii) in the case of any other person whose tour of overseas service ended before 15th February 1971, the written consent of the chief officer of police of the home police force to which he had such right of reversion, acting with the consent of the police authority of that force.

(1)

1945 c. 17 (9 & 10 Geo. 6).