Police and Justice Act 2006

Staff pensions E+W

15 (1) The Agency may pay, or make payments in respect of, such pensions or gratuities to or in respect of persons who are, or have been, members of its staff as the Agency may determine, including pensions or gratuities by way of compensation to or in respect of members of the Agency's staff who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments. E+W

(2) In Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11) (kinds of employment to which section 1 of that Act applies), at the appropriate place under the heading “Other Bodies” there is inserted— “ Employment as a member of the staff of the National Policing Improvement Agency. ”

(3) The Agency must pay to the Minister for the Civil Service, at such times as that Minister may direct, such sums as that Minister may determine in respect of any increase attributable to this paragraph in the sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under the Superannuation Act 1972.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 15 in force at 1.4.2007 by S.I. 2007/709, art. 3(a) (with arts. 6, 7)

16 (1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where— E+W

(a) a person is, by reference to employment as a member of the Agency's staff, a participant in a scheme under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972, and

(b) the person becomes an appointed member of the Agency.

(2) The Minister for the Civil Service may determine that the person's service as an appointed member of the Agency is to be treated for the purposes of the scheme as employment as a member of the Agency's staff (whether or not any benefits are payable to or in respect of him under paragraph 12).

Commencement Information

I2 Sch. 1 para. 16 in force at 1.4.2007 by S.I. 2007/709, art. 3(a) (with arts. 6, 7)