15 Superannuation of metropolitan civil staffs.
(1) In this section—
(a) the expression “member of the metropolitan civil staffs” means a person—
(i) who is employed by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis;
S. 15(1)(a)(i) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(2) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
Words in s. 15(1)(a)(i) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 88(2); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1
(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 15(1)(a)(ii) repealed (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2 (with savings in Sch. 1 para. 4)
but does not include any person such as is mentioned in regulation B2(1)(l) of the Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974;
(b) the expression “civil service provisions” means the following as for the time being in force, namely, the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and any enactment or instrument, being an enactment or instrument relating to pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are or have been in the civil service of the State, whether that enactment or instrument was passed or made before or after the passing of this Act, other than an enactment or instrument relating to transfers between that service and service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs;
Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(2)
1972 c. 11.
(c) the expression “the appointed day” means such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.
Words substituted by S.I. 1974/520, Sch. 18 para. 6
S.I. 1974/520.
(2) The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime shall have power to grant pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are members of the metropolitan civil staffs by virtue of employment by that Office.
S. 15(2)-(2D) substituted for s 15(2) (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(3) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
S. 15(2)(2ZA) substituted for s. 15(2) (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 88(3); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1
(2ZA) The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis shall have power to grant pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are members of the metropolitan civil staffs by virtue of employment by the Commissioner.
(2A) The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, may, to such extent and subject to such conditions as that Office or Commissioner thinks fit, authorise the exercise of the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section by, or by employees of, any person.
Words in s. 15(2A) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 88(4)(a); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1
Words in s. 15(2A) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 88(4)(b); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1
(2B) Where a person is authorised under subsection (2A) above to exercise the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section, anything done or omitted to be done by or in relation to him (or an employee of his) in, or in connection with, the exercise or purported exercise of the function shall be treated for all purposes as done or omitted to be done by the person who authorised him.
(2C) Subsection (2B) above does not apply for the purposes of—
(a) any criminal proceedings against the authorised person (or any employee of his); or
(b) any contract between him and the person who authorised him, so far as relating to the function.
(2D) Unless the powers conferred by section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972, section 50 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, paragraph 36 of Schedule 14 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 or Part XII of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 are exercised for the purpose of making provision with respect to the provision of pensions for or in respect of members of the metropolitan civil staffs, the civil service provisions shall have effect (subject to any regulations for the time being i force under subsection (3) of this section) for the purposes of the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section to or in respect of such a member, for the purposes of transfers (whether before, on or after the appointed day) between service as such a member and other service (not being service in the the civil service of the State), or for any connected purpose, as they have effect for the purposes of the grant by the Treasury ou t of moneys provided by Parliament or out of the Consolidated Fund of pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons in the civil service of the State, for the purposes of transfers between that service and any other service (not being service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs), or of any corresponding connected purpose, as the caes may be, and as if employment as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs were employment in a public department.
1972 c. 11.
1997 c. 25.
1999 c. 22.
(3) The Secretary of State may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service by regulations provide that any of the civil service provisions shall have effect for the purposes of pensions or other benefits under this section, or of transfers between service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs and other service, or for any connected purpose, as the case may be—
(a) subject to any exceptions additions or modifications specified in the regulations; and
Word inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(3)
(b) subject to any adaptations so specified, being adaptations appearing to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient to ensure that those provisions have effect as mentioned in subsection (2D) of this section,
Words in s. 15(3)(b) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(4) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
and any such adaptations may be either general adaptations applicable to all the civil service provisions, whether or not passed or made at the date of the making of the regulations, or particular adaptations of particular provisions.
Words inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(3)
(4) Regulations under subsection (3) of this section may be made so as to have effect as from any date not earlier than the date of the coming into force of the civil service provision in question, notwithstanding that the regulations are made after that date.
(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8
(6) Before making regulations under subsection (3) of this section the Secretary of State shall consult with persons appearing to him to represent the metropolitan civil staffs with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and before any such regulations come into operation the Secretary of State shall lay a copy thereof before Parliament.
S. 15(6) substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(5)
Words in s. 15(6) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 88(5); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1
(7) Nothing in this section shall affect any pension or other benefit granted under the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931 before the appointed day, and accordingly any such pension or other benefit shall be paid by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
Words in s. 15(7) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(6) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
Words in s. 15(7) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 88(6); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1
(8) As from the appointed day the following provisions are hereby repealed or revoked, namely—
(a) the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act 1875;
1875 c. 28.
(b) the Metropolitan Staff Superannuation Act 1885;
1885 c. 68.
(c) in the Police Act 1909, section 4;
1909 c. 40.
(d) in the Metropolitan Police (Staff Superannuation and Police Fund) Act 1931, sections 1 to 3;
1931 c. 12
(e) in the Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938, in Part I of the Schedule, the entry relating to the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931;
1938 c. 13.
(f) in section 2 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948, subsections (2)(b) and (3)(ii) and, in subsection (4), paragraph (c), the words “into the Metrpolitan Police Fund”, and the word “(c)” in the last place where it occurs;
1948 c. 33.
(g) the Superannuation (Transfers between Metrpolitan Police Staffs and Local Government) Rules 1959;
S.I. 1959/1243.
(h) the National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Police Staffs Superannuation Provisions) Regulations 1961;
S.I. 1961/439.
(i) the National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Polce Staffs Superannuation Provisions) Regulations 1963;
S.I. 1963/1610.
(j) in the Administration of Justice Act 1964, section 24;
1964 c. 42.
(k) the National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Police Staffs Superannuation Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 1966;
S.I. 1966/1120.
(l) the Superannuation (Transfers between Police and Metropolitan Polce Staffs) Rules 1966.
S.I. 1966/1589.
The text of Ss. 11(3)(4)(5)(6)(7), 15(8)(a)–(l) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 15(9) repealed (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2
S. 15: power to appeal or amend conferred (E.W.)(prosp.) by 1994 c. 29, ss. 82(7)(11) (which said s. 82 was repealed (19.6.1997), without having come into force, by 1997 c. 25, s. 73(3), Sch. 6 Pt. I)
S. 15 modified (E.W.) (prosp.) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 50(7)(11), 74(2), (with s. 73(1), Sch. 4 para. 27)
This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland and Northern Ireland only
S. 15: power to extend conferred (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(3), Sch. 14 Pt. V para. 36(3)(b) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)).
By 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(8) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)) it is provided that s. 15(2)(a) be excluded (3.7.2000); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
By 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(9) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)) is is provided that s. 15(2)(b) be applied (with modifications) (3.7.2000); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)

15 Superannuation of metropolitan civil staffs.
(1) In this section—
(a) the expression “member of the metropolitan civil staffs” means a person—
(i) who is employed by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis,;
S. 15(1)(a)(i) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(2) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 15(1)(a)(ii) repealed (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2 (with savings in Sch. 1 para. 4)
but does not include any person such as is mentioned in regulation B2(1)(l) of the Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974;
(b) the expression “civil service provisions” means the following as for the time being in force, namely, the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 and any enactment or instrument, being an enactment or instrument relating to pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are or have been in the civil service of the State, whether that enactment or instrument was passed or made before or after the passing of this Act, other than an enactment or instrument relating to transfers between that service and service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs;
Words substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(2)
1972 c. 11.
(c) the expression “the appointed day” means such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.
Words substituted by S.I. 1974/520, Sch. 18 para. 6
S.I. 1974/520.
(2) The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime shall have power to grant pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are members of the metropolitan civil staffs by virtue of employment by that Office.
(2ZA) The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis shall have power to grant pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are members of the metropolitan civil staffs by virtue of employment by the Commissioner.
(2A) The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, may, to such extent and subject to such conditions as that Office or Commissioner thinks fit, authorise the exercise of the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section by, or by employees of, any person.
(2B) Where a person is authorised under subsection (2A) above to exercise the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section, anything done or omitted to be done by or in relation to him (or an employee of his) in, or in connection with, the exercise or purported exercise of the function shall be treated for all purposes as done or omitted to be done by the person who authorised him.
(2C) Subsection (2B) above does not apply for the purposes of—
(a) any criminal proceedings against the authorised person (or any employee of his); or
(b) any contract between him and the person who authorised him, so far as relating to the function.
(2D) Unless the powers conferred by section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972, section 50 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997, paragraph 36 of Schedule 14 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 or Part XII of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 are exercised for the purpose of making provision with respect to the provision of pensions for or in respect of members of the metropolitan civil staffs, the civil service provisions shall have effect (subject to any regulations for the time being in force under subsection (3) of this section) for the purposes of the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section to or in respect of such a member for the purposes of transfers (whether before, on or after the appointed day) between service as such a member and other service (not being service in the civil service of the State), or for any connected purpose, as they have effect for the purposes of the grant by the Treasury out of moneys provided by Parliament or out of the Consolidated Fund of pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons in the civil service of the State, for the purposes of transfers between that sevice and any other service (not being service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs), or for any corresponding connected purpose, as the case may be, and as if employment as a memebr of the metropolitan civil staffs were employment in a public department.
1972 c. 11.
1997 c. 25.
1999 c. 22.
(3) The Secretary of State may with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service by regulations provide that any of the civil service provisions shall have effect for the purposes of pensions or other benefits under this section, or of transfers between service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs and other service, or for any connected purpose, as the case may be—
(a) subject to any exceptions additions or modifications specified in the regulations; and
Word inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(3)
(b) subject to any adaptations so specified, being adaptations appearing to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient to ensure that those provisions have effect as mentioned in subsection (2D) of this section,
Words in s. 15(3)(b) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(4) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
and any such adaptations may be either general adaptations applicable to all the civil service provisions, whether or not passed or made at the date of the making of the regulations, or particular adaptations of particular provisions.
Words inserted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(3)
(4) Regulations under subsection (3) of this section may be made so as to have effect as from any date not earlier than the date of the coming into force of the civil service provision in question, notwithstanding that the regulations are made after that date.
(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 1, 2(2)(3), 6, 8, 11(2), 15(5), 16 repealed by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 23(1), Schs. 5, 8
(6) Before making regulations under subsection (3) of this section the Secretary of State shall consult with persons appearing to him to represent the metropolitan civil staffs with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and before any such regulations come into operation the Secretary of State shall lay a copy thereof before Parliament.
S. 15(6) substituted by Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11), s. 14(5)
(7) Nothing in this section shall affect any pension or other benefit granted under the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931 before the appointed day, and accordingly any such pension or other benefit shall be paid by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
Words in s. 15(7) substituted (3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(6) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
(8) As from the appointed day the following provisions are hereby repealed or revoked, namely—
(a) the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act 1875;
1875 c. 28.
(b) the Metropolitan Staff Superannuation Act 1885;
1885 c. 68.
(c) in the Police Act 1909, section 4;
1909 c. 40.
(d) in the Metropolitan Police (Staff Superannuation and Police Fund) Act 1931, sections 1 to 3;
1931 c. 12
(e) in the Superannuation (Various Services) Act 1938, in Part I of the Schedule, the entry relating to the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931;
1938 c. 13.
(f) in section 2 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948, subsections (2)(b) and (3)(ii) and, in subsection (4), paragraph (c), the words “into the Metrpolitan Police Fund”, and the word “(c)” in the last place where it occurs;
1948 c. 33.
(g) the Superannuation (Transfers between Metrpolitan Police Staffs and Local Government) Rules 1959;
S.I. 1959/1243.
(h) the National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Police Staffs Superannuation Provisions) Regulations 1961;
S.I. 1961/439.
(i) the National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Polce Staffs Superannuation Provisions) Regulations 1963;
S.I. 1963/1610.
(j) in the Administration of Justice Act 1964, section 24;
1964 c. 42.
(k) the National Insurance (Modification of the Metropolitan Police Staffs Superannuation Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 1966;
S.I. 1966/1120.
(l) the Superannuation (Transfers between Police and Metropolitan Polce Staffs) Rules 1966.
S.I. 1966/1589.
The text of Ss. 11(3)(4)(5)(6)(7), 15(8)(a)-(l) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 15(9) repealed (1.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. V(6) (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 2
This version of this provision extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland only; a separate version has been created for England and Wales only
S. 15: power to extend conferred (27.9.1999) by 1999 c. 22, ss. 105, 108(3), Sch. 14 Pt. V para. 36(3)(b) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2))
By 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(8) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)) it is provided that s. 15(2)(a) be excluded (3.7.2000); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)
By 1999 c. 29, s. 325, Sch. 27 para. 20(9) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)) it is provided that s. 15(2)(b) be applied (with modifications) (3.7.2000); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provision in Sch.)