The Police Pensions Amendment (Increased Pension Entitlement) (Scotland) Regulations 2009

Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987

This section has no associated Executive Note

5.  After regulation N3 (payments), insert–

Authorisation of payment of GMP-related payments

N4.(1) The relevant police authority may pay GMP-related payments to–

(a)a person to whom this Part applies; and

(b)a deceased entitled member.

(2) Where a relevant police authority has paid GMP-related payments before 6th April 2009, the authority may not recover those payments after 6th April 2009.

(3) In this regulation, a deceased entitled member is a person who–

(a)at the date of his death was entitled to a pension under the scheme;

(b)at that date was entitled to a guaranteed minimum pension; and

(c)has in any tax year since entitlement to the guaranteed minimum pension commenced received a GMP-related payment..