The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Displaced chief constable

Pensionable service—added years in case of chief constable displaced under Police Act 1946 or corresponding Scottish enactments

6.—(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of the chief constable of a force for a police area which was amalgamated with another police area by a scheme under the Police Act 1946(1) who was deemed to have retired under section 11(3) of that Act.

(2) The reference in paragraph (1) to the chief constable of a force for a police area which was amalgamated includes a reference to a person who engaged for a tour of overseas service and, immediately before he so engaged, was the chief constable of the force for an area which, while he was so engaged, was amalgamated as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) and any reference in this paragraph to section 11(3) of the Police Act 1946 includes a reference to that provision as applied by section 14(3)(a) of that Act.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in Regulation F1—

(a) if during the period of 3 months referred to in section 11(3) of the said Act of 1946 such a chief constable joined the combined police force he shall be entitled to treat the period during which he was in receipt of a salary thereunder as service in the combined force for the purposes of reckoning pensionable service;

(b) if during the said period of 3 months he did not join the combined force, the pensionable service reckonable by him at the expiration of that period shall be the pensionable service which he was entitled to reckon at the date when he was deemed to have retired with the addition of the said period of 3 months and also of the shortest of the following periods, namely—

(i) a period of 10 years,

(ii) the period between the date on which he was deemed to have retired from his force and the date on which he would, if he had continued to serve therein, have become entitled to reckon 30 years' pensionable service, and

(iii) the period between the date on which he was deemed to have so retired and the date on which he would (if alive) attain the age of 65 years.

(4) In the application of these Regulations to Scotland, references in this paragraph to the Police Act 1946 and to sections 11(3) and 14(3)(a) thereof shall be construed as references to—

(a) the Police (Scotland) Act 1946(2) and to sections 7(2) and 9(3)(a) thereof, respectively;

(b) the Police (Scotland) Act 1956 and to sections 22(2) and 23(2) thereof, respectively, or,

(c) the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 and to sections 23(2) and 24(2) thereof, respectively.

(1)

1946 c. 46.

(2)

1946 c. 71.