1.—(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of a regular policeman of a rank above that of superintendent who has served as such during a period beginning on or after 1st August 1975 (“the relevant period”).
(2) Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, an award to or in respect of such a regular policeman shall not be less than it would have been had the pay to which he was entitled as a member of a police force, in respect of the relevant period, fallen to be calculated in accordance with the scale of pay in force immediately before 1st August 1975 for a member of that force holding the rank, or the rank and office, held by him during the relevant period:
Provided that where the award is an ordinary pension which falls to be reduced in accordance with paragraph 6 of Part VIII of Schedule B, the reduction shall be calculated without regard to this paragraph.
2.—(1) This paragraph shall apply in the case of a member of a police force who has served as such for any period beginning on or after 1st September 1978 and ending before 1st May 1979 (“the relevant period”).
(2) Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, an award to or in respect of such a regular policeman shall be calculated as if the pay to which he was entitled in respect of the relevant period had been that to which a regular policeman would have been entitled in respect of a corresponding period beginning with 1st May 1979, disregarding any increase in pay which took effect after that date, if his circumstances had been identical to those during the relevant period of the regular policeman concerned.