SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Power to merge police pension schemes
Power to merge police pension schemes
I12
1
Regulations may—
a
revoke those provisions of the police pensions regulations that apply to persons who became members of a police pension scheme before 6th April 2006, and
b
make equivalent provision establishing a single pension scheme for the benefit of those persons.
2
In sub-paragraph (1)(b) “equivalent provision” means, subject to sub-paragraph (3), provision having the same effect as the provisions revoked.
3
The regulations may make changes to the effect of the provisions revoked if the changes—
a
are made as a result of consolidating the provisions of the different police pensions regulations into a single pension scheme, and
b
do not make the scheme less beneficial to any member of it than the police pension scheme of which he was previously a member.