The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Previous service reckonable on payment

F4.—(1) Subject to Regulation F9(4) (interchange arrangements), there shall be reckonable by a regular policeman as pensionable service, in the circumstances specified in this Regulation, the periods so specified before he last joined or rejoined the force before the relevant date, subject to his having made to the police authority the appropriate payment.

(2) Where before the relevant date he retired without a pension (including a pension under the former Acts) from the same force as that in which he is or was serving on the relevant date—

(a) the period shall be any period of pensionable service or approved service under the former Acts reckonable by him at the time he retired, not being a period of approved service reckonable by virtue of Regulation F2(1)(b), and

(b) the appropriate payment shall be an amount equal to any gratuity, return of pension contributions or rateable deductions, as the case may be, which he may have received on his retirement together with the balance outstanding immediately before his retirement of any sum he had undertaken to pay as mentioned in Part I of Schedule F, so however that where, before his retirement and in pursuance of an election under Regulation 58 or 59 of the Regulations of 1973 or under any of the provisions mentioned in Regulation 57(2) of those Regulations, he had paid additional or further contributions or had made an additional or further payment by way of a lump sum, the appropriate payment shall be reduced by the amount he had paid by way of such contributions or lump sum and he shall be treated for the purposes of these Regulations as having neither paid nor elected to pay such contributions or lump sum.

(3) Where before the relevant date he retired with a deferred pension but has relinquished his entitlement thereto by written notice given to the police authority for the purposes of this Regulation or Regulation F5 (or of the corresponding provisions of the Regulations of 1973), paragraph (2) shall have effect as though he had retired without a pension and, where immediately before his retirement he was paying such additional or further contributions as are mentioned in paragraph (2)(b), the amount he had paid by way of such contributions shall be repaid to him and he shall be treated for the purposes of these Regulations as having neither paid nor elected to pay such contributions.

(4) Where he previously served as a member of the first class of the police reserve, of the Police War Reserve or of Class A of the Women’s Auxiliary Police Corps or, subject to paragraph (6), as a special constable—

(a) the period shall be half the period of active service as a member of the first class of the police reserve during which he was not in receipt of a pension (including a pension under the former Acts), half the period of active service as a member of the Police War Reserve, half the period of active service as a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Police Corps, whether in Class A of that Corps or otherwise, or half the period of service as a special constable while serving as such in a whole-time capacity and in receipt of pay in respect of such service, as the case may be, and

(b) the appropriate payment shall be 5% of, in the case of a man, £4.50, or in the case of a woman, £3.95, in respect of each week which he is entitled under this paragraph to reckon as pensionable service.

(5) Where he was a person to whom section 1 of the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1939(1), as extended by Regulation 60DA of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939(2), applied—

(a) the period shall be the period during which he was engaged in war work within the meaning of the said Defence Regulation during the year 1947, and

(b) the appropriate payment shall be the aggregate of the payments that he would have been required to make under the said Act as so extended in respect of the said period if the emergency that was the occasion of the passing of that Act had not come to an end.

(6) Except where the appropriate payment has been made before 1st January 1963, the references in paragraph (4) to a special constable shall be construed as references only to a special constable appointed—

(a) in England and Wales, under the Special Constables Act 1831(3) or section 196 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882(4);

(b) in Scotland, under section 96 of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892(5) or the corresponding provisions of any local enactment.

(7) Paragraph (3) has effect subject to paragraph 4 of Part IV of Schedule J.

(1)

1939 c. 103.

(2)

S.R.&O. 1939/927; Regulation 60DA was added by S.R.&O. 1941/1038.

(3)

1831 c. 41.

(4)

1882 c. 50.

(5)

1892 c. 55.