The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Cancellation of ill-health and injury pensions

K1.—(1) As long as a person—

(a) is in receipt of an ill-health pension;

(b) would not, if he had continued to serve as a regular policeman instead of retiring with an ill-health pension, have been entitled to reckon 25 years' pensionable service, and

(c) if he had continued so to serve, could not have been required to retire on account of age,

the police authority may, if they wish to exercise the powers conferred by this Regulation, consider, at such intervals as they in their discretion think proper, whether his disability has ceased.

(2) If on any such consideration it is found that his disability has ceased, the police authority may give the person concerned notice that if he wishes to rejoin the force as a regular policeman within a period of not less than 3 months from the date on which he has been given such notice he will be permitted to do so.

(3) If the person concerned within the period referred to in paragraph (2) offers to rejoin the force as a regular policeman, he shall be permitted to do so in a rank not lower than that he held immediately before he retired with the ill-health pension.

(4) On the person concerned rejoining the force as mentioned in paragraph (3) or, where he does not offer to rejoin within the period referred to in paragraph (2), at the end of that period, there shall be terminated—

(a) the unsecured portion of his ill-health pension, and

(b) any injury pension to which he is entitled;

and where the unsecured portion of an ill-health pension is terminated under this paragraph, the secured portion of that pension shall not be payable in respect of any period before state pensionable age.

(5) Where the unsecured portion of an ill-health pension is terminated under paragraph (4) otherwise than on the policeman rejoining his force, but he is not a regular policeman to whom Regulation B5 applies, then, if the aggregate of—

(a) the sums paid in respect of the pension;

(b) the actuarial value of the secured portion of the pension (in so far as it is payable under paragraph (4)) determined in accordance with tables prepared by the Government Actuary, and

(c) the actuarial value of any pension to which he is entitled under Regulation J1 determined as aforesaid,

is less than his aggregate pension contributions in respect of the relevant period of service, the police authority shall pay the difference to the policeman.

(6) Paragraph (5) has effect subject to paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule J.