PART 4Provision about divorce and dissolution arrangements

CHAPTER 1Pension credit and pension debit members

SECTION 2Pension sharing arrangements: information provided before 1st October 2023

Application and interpretation of Section 2 18.

(1)

This Section applies where, before 1st October 2023, the scheme manager has provided information for the purpose of determining amounts under section 29 of WRPA 1999 in respect of a remedy member’s remedial police service.

(2)

In this Section—

alternative amount” has the meaning given in regulation 19;

“alternative reduction amount” and “alternative reduction amounts” have the meanings given in, respectively, regulation 23(3) and (4);

alternative scheme”, in relation to a relevant pension sharing arrangement that does not relate to mixed service, means—

(a)

where the initial scheme is D’s legacy scheme, the reformed scheme;

(b)

where the initial scheme is the reformed scheme, D’s legacy scheme; “C’s pension account” has the meaning given in regulation 21(4);

initial amount” means the total amount determined for the purposes of the relevant pension sharing arrangement under section 29(2) and (3) of WRPA 1999 in relation to D’s remediable shareable rights;

initial reduction amount” means the amount by which D’s remediable relevant benefits were reduced pursuant to the relevant pension sharing arrangement;

initial scheme”, in relation to a relevant pension sharing arrangement that does not relate to mixed service, means the police pension scheme in respect of which an initial amount or an initial reduction amount was determined;

remediable credit adjustment” has the meaning given in regulation 20(2).

(3)

For the purposes of this Section, a relevant pension sharing arrangement relates to mixed service if it specifies an appropriate amount in accordance with section 29(2) or (3) of WRPA 1999 by reference to the value of remediable relevant benefits to which D is entitled by virtue of remediable shareable rights secured in both D’s legacy scheme and the reformed scheme (and, accordingly, a relevant pension sharing arrangement does not relate to mixed service if it specifies an appropriate amount by reference to remediable shareable rights secured in only one of those schemes).