The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Previous service reckonable without payment

F3.—(1) There shall be reckonable by a regular policeman as pensionable service—

(a) where from being a regular policeman in another force he transferred on or after 5th July 1948 to the force in which he is or was serving on the relevant date, any period of pensionable service reckonable by him immediately before the transfer;

(b) where he previously retired with an ill-health pension or a pension under the former Acts from the force in which he is or was serving on the relevant date, that pension was terminated in whole or in part under Regulation K1 or any corresponding provision of the former Regulations or former Acts, and he rejoined the force on or after 5th July 1948, any period of pensionable service or of approved service under the former Acts, as the case may be, reckonable by him at the time he retired;

(c) where he previously retired with a pension under the former Acts in respect of a non-accidental injury from the force in which he is or was serving on the relevant date, and the approved service under the former Acts reckonable by him at the time he retired is reckonable as pensionable service under sub-paragraph (b), the period during which he was in receipt of the pension;

(d) where the relevant date is 15th May 1950 or any later date and he left the Royal Ulster Constabulary with the consent of the chief officer of that force and the approval of the Police Authority for Northern Ireland for the purpose of becoming a regular policeman in a home police force, any period of approved or pensionable service which was reckonable by him, immediately before he so left, for the purposes of the Royal Ulster Constabulary pensions legislation;

(e) where he previously engaged for a period of service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary as mentioned in section 2(1) of the Police Act 1969(1) and he exercises the right of reversion to a home police force conferred by the said section 2(1) or, on that right arising, does not exercise it but joins another home police force, any period of pensionable service which was reckonable by him for the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraph (d), immediately before he left the Royal Ulster Constabulary;

(f) where from being a member of the British Airports Authority constabulary he was transferred to the force in which he is or was serving on the relevant date by an order under section 6 of the Policing of Airports Act 1974(2), any period of pensionable service reckonable by him immediately before the transfer for the purposes of the superannuation scheme then applicable to him:

• Provided that—

  (i)

  where he was then, for the purposes of that scheme, purchasing added years by annual payments, those added years shall only be taken into account to the extent that they would have been taken into account for the purposes of a deferred pension under the said scheme if he had become entitled to such a pension immediately before he in fact transferred;

  (ii)

  where he had been granted a back service credit within the meaning of the said scheme which exceeded the previous service by reason of which it was granted, otherwise than by reason of the previous service being wholly or partly service in a particular territory overseas, only that part of the credit which does not exceed the previous service shall be taken into account.

(2) Where a regular policeman—

(a) transferred as mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) during a leap-year beginning on or after 1st January 1984, or

(b) became a regular policeman in a home police force in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (1)(d) or (e), during a leap-year beginning on or after 1st January 1988,

and throughout the leap-year in question had continuous service as a regular policeman or, as the case may be, as either a regular policeman or a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary then, notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1)(a), (d) or (e), the pensionable service reckonable by him by reason of his continuous service in that year shall be a year's, and not 366 days', pensionable service.

(1)

1969 c. 63.

(2)

1974 c. 41.