The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Previous service reckonable under current interchange arrangements

F6.—(1) Save as provided in paragraphs (2) and (5), this Regulation shall apply to a regular policeman—

(a) who before he last became a regular policeman before the relevant date was in service or employment (otherwise than as a member of a police force) by reason of which he was subject to superannuation arrangements in pursuance of which a transfer value may be paid to the police authority (in this Regulation and in Section 2 of Part II of Schedule F such service or employment and such superannuation arrangements are referred to as “former service” and “former superannuation arrangements”);

(b) subject to paragraph (3), who, before the relevant date, last became a regular policeman on or after 1st April 1972, and

(c) in respect of whom a transfer value relating to his former service has, in pursuance of his former superannuation arrangements, been paid to the police authority of the force in which he is serving on the relevant date.

(2) This Regulation shall not apply in the case of a regular policeman who, before the relevant date, last became such before 6th April 1978 if either—

(a) he or his widow elected under paragraph (1A) of Regulation 51 of the Regulations of 1973 that that Regulation should apply in his case, or

(b) such a transfer value as is mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) was received in his case before 1st January 1974.

(3) If the police authority have so determined in the case of a particular regular policeman who, before the relevant date, last became such on or after 5th July 1948 but before 1st April 1972, this Regulation shall have effect as if paragraph (1)(b) were omitted.

(4) There shall be reckonable by a regular policeman to whom this Regulation applies, in respect of his former service, a period of pensionable service calculated in accordance with Sections 2 and 3 of Part II of Schedule F.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Regulation, the provisions thereof shall not apply—

(a) where the regular policeman concerned is entitled to reckon pension-able service under Regulation F3(1)(d), (e) or (f) by reason of former service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary or in the British Airports Authority constabulary; or

(b) where the regular policeman concerned had a guaranteed minimum in relation to the pension provided by the former superannuation arrangements unless—

(i) those arrangements are of a kind mentioned in paragraph 1(2) of Section 2 of Part II of Schedule F, or

(ii) that guaranteed minimum is no greater than a notional deferred pension calculated by reference to the pensionable service which, under the said Section 2, would be reckonable if the transfer value were paid.