An Act to provide for the consolidation, with or without changes authorised by the Police Pensions Act 1948, of regulations under section one of that Act; and to make further provision for the application of the regulations in relation to special constables.
[22nd June 1961]
(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(2)Where any persons are receiving, or subject to any necessary claim being made and allowed are entitled to receive, benefits conferred by regulations under [F2section one of the M1Police Pensions Act 1976] as applied to special constables or theirdependantsby an instrument made under the M2Special Constables Act 1914, or section eleven of the M3Police (Scotland) Act 1956, then any such instrument which revokes or otherwise changes the regulations so as to affect those benefits shall apply provisions of regulations under the said section one to those persons, either with or without modifications, so as to secure to them benefits not less advantageous than the benefits aforesaid.
(3)[F3Subsection (4) of section 2 of the said Act of 1976 (which provides for regulations not to be invalid by reason only of their failure to secure the results specified in subsections (2) and (3) of that section but requires their amendment to secure those results) shall have effect as if the reference to the said subsections (2) and (3) included a reference to subsection (2) of this section and as if the references to regulations or amending regulations under section one of that] Act included references to an instrument or amending instrument under the said Act of 1914 or the said section eleven.
(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1(1)(4) repealed by Police Pensions Act 1976 (c. 35), Sch. 3
F2Words substituted by Police Pensions Act 1976 (c. 35), Sch. 2 para. 3(a)
F3Words substituted by Police Pensions Act 1976 (c. 35), Sch. 2 para. 3(b)
Marginal Citations
(1)This Act may be cited as the Police Pensions Act 1961, . . . F4
(2) . . . F4 this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
Textual Amendments
F4Words repealed by Police Pensions Act 1976 (c. 35), Sch. 3