The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Increase of awards by reference to the Pensions (Increase) Acts

29.—(1) Where it is provided that, for the purpose of calculating an award by way of periodical payments or a gratuity (“the relevant award”), an amount shall be increased in accordance with this regulation, it shall be increased by the amount, if any, by which a corresponding pension, within the meaning of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971(“the 1971 Act”)(1), of the amount first mentioned would from time to time be increased under the Pensions (Increase) Acts if–

(a) it were payable to the person entitled to the relevant award;

(b) it were one of the pensions specified in paragraph 43 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act;

(c) it were not a pension to which section 1(2)(a) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1974(2) applies; and

(d) it began, within the meaning of the 1971 Act, and became payable when the relevant award so began and became payable.

(2) Where the relevant award is a child’s special allowance, the Pensions (Increase) Acts as applied by paragraph (1) shall have effect as if section 3 were omitted from the 1971 Act and, accordingly, the amount first mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be increased so long as the special allowance is payable.

(1)

1971 c. 56; as amended by the Police Act 1996 c. 16.

(2)

1974 c. 9.