The Police Pensions (Pension Sharing on Divorce) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 No. 459

SCHEDULE MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE POLICE PENSIONS REGULATIONS 1987

Amendment of regulation L1 (authorities responsible for payment of awards)

16.  In regulation L1 after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted–

“(3) An award payable to or in respect of a pension credit member under Part M, and any sum paid in commutation of such an award, is payable by the relevant police authority.

(4) In this Scheme “the relevant police authority”, in relation to a pension credit member, means–

(a) the police authority who employ the pension debit member from whose rights the pension credit member’s pension credit is derived at the time when the pension sharing order takes effect, or,

(b) if he is not then employed by a police authority, the police authority by whom he was last employed.”.