The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015

Annual rate of full retirement pension (deferred members)

89.—(1) This regulation applies when a deferred member of this scheme becomes entitled to payment for life of a full retirement pension.

(2) The annual rate of any description of full retirement pension payable to the member is calculated by—

(a) taking the provisional amount of the relevant description of deferred pension specified in the deferred member’s account;

(b) adding the late payment supplement (if any) specified in that account in relation to that provisional amount;

(c) subtracting the early payment reduction (if any) specified in that account in relation to that amount; and

(d) subtracting the commutation amount (if any) specified in that account in relation to that amount.

(3) The annual rate of any description of full retirement pension is calculated without subtracting the early payment reduction if—

(a) the member buys out the early payment reduction in relation to that description of full retirement pension; or

(b) the full retirement pension comes into payment early on grounds of permanent medical unfitness(1).

(4) In this regulation, “the relevant description of deferred pension” means—

(a) for a retirement standard earned pension, deferred standard earned pension;

(b) for a retirement club transfer earned pension, deferred club transfer earned pension;

(c) for a retirement added (self only) pension, deferred added (self only) pension; and

(d) for a retirement added (all beneficiaries) pension, deferred added (all beneficiaries) pension.

(1)

See regulation 81(3) for when a full retirement pension comes into payment early on grounds of permanent medical unfitness.