The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Reckoning of service for purposes of awards

A9.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), for the purpose of calculating an award payable to or in respect of a member of a police force by reference to any period in years (including a period of pensionable or other service)—

(a) that period shall be reckoned in completed years and a fraction of a year;

(b) a part of a year shall be taken to be that fraction of a year whereof the denominator is 365 and the numerator is the number of completed days in that part and, accordingly, a part of a year which includes 29th February in a leap-year and comprises 365 days shall be treated as a whole year.

(2) Where, for the purpose of calculating an award to or in respect of a regular policeman—

(a) it is necessary to determine his pensionable service reckonable by reason of service or employment before or after a particular date, and

(b) by virtue of the receipt by a police authority of a transfer value, he is entitled to reckon a period of pensionable service by reason of service or employment for a period which includes the date in question,

then that part of the said period of pensionable service shall be deemed to be reckonable by reason of service or employment before or after the date in question which bears the same proportion to the whole of that period as the part of the previous service or employment before, or as the case may be after, that date bears to the whole thereof.

(3) Paragraph (1) has effect subject to paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Part IV of Schedule J.