The Police Regulations 2003

Deductions from pay of social security benefits and statutory sick pay E+W

31.—(1) There shall be deducted from the pay of a member of a police force who is in receipt of full pay—

(a) the amount of any short-term or long-term incapacity benefit to which he is entitled under the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 M1 ;

(b) any statutory sick pay to which he is entitled under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 M2 ,

[F1 (c) any employment and support allowance to which the member is entitled under sections 1(2)(a) or 1B of the Welfare Reform Act 2007,]

and for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) any increase for adult and child dependants shall be treated as forming part of the benefit or allowance to which it relates.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a female member of a police force who as a married woman or widow has elected to pay contributions under section 19 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 at the reduced rate, shall be deemed to be entitled to any social security benefits mentioned in paragraph (1) to which she would have been entitled had she not elected to contribute at the reduced rate.

(3) In this regulation, “full pay” means pay at the rate ascertained from regulation 24 and the determination made thereunder.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 31(1)(c) inserted (4.1.2017) by The Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1200), regs. 1, 2(3)

Marginal Citations

M1 1994 c. 18.

M2 1992 c. 4.