The Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 1987

Abatement in respect of gratuities payable under the principal Regulations

7.—(1) The amount of any gratuity payable to a member of a police force under Regulation 4 shall be reduced by deducting therefrom the amount of any gratuity paid to him under Regulation 20(4), 21(4) or 22 of the principal Regulations.

(2) The amount of any gratuity payable to any person under Regulation 5 in respect of the death of a member of a police force shall be reduced by deducting therefrom—

(a) the amount of any gratuities paid to the member or his estate under Regulation 20(4), 21(4), 22 or 43 of the principal Regulations;

(b) in the case of a widow, where a gratuity under Regulation 28(2) of the principal Regulations is payable to her or her estate—

(i) unless sub-paragraph (ii) below applies, the amount of the gratuity;

(ii) where the said amount falls to be calculated in accordance with Regulation 29(3) of the principal Regulations, an amount equal to the amount of the gratuity which would be payable to her or her estate under the said Regulation 28(2) if—

(A) the said Regulation 29 had not applied;

(B) the husband had died while serving as a member of a police force (whether or not he was in fact so serving when he died); and

(C) the husband’s average pensionable pay was greater than 2¼ times the annual amount of the ill-health pension which would have been payable under Regulation 20 of the principal Regulations to the husband if he had retired on the grounds of permanent disability on the day on which he had diefÀ(whether or not it was in fact greater); and

(c) in the case of any other person, the amount of any gratuity paid to that person or his estate in respect of the death of that member under Regulation 39 or Regulation 43 of the principal Regulations.

(3) In any case where, by reason of Regulation 5(4) a payment in respect of the death of a member of a police force falls to be divided among two or more persons, that payment shall, before it is so divided, be reduced by deducting therefrom the amount of any gratuities paid as mentioned in paragraph (2).