The Police Pensions Regulations 1987

Certain senior officers with service on or after 1st August 1975

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.