The Police Pensions (Part-time Service) Regulations 2005

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Part-time Service) Regulations 2005.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 22nd June 2005 but regulation 2, insofar as it relates to paragraphs 2 to 7 of Schedule 1, and regulations 4 and 5 have effect from 1st July 1992(1).

(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.

Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987

2.  The Police Pensions Regulations 1987(2) are amended in accordance with Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amendment of the Police Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1987

3.  The Police Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1987(3) are amended in accordance with Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Interest on late payments

4.  Where all or part of a sum—

(a) becomes payable under the amendments contained in these Regulations on a date before the date on which these Regulations come into force, and

(b) is or was not paid within three months of the date it became payable,

the police authority in question shall pay the amount or additional amount payable together with interest from the date that payment was due calculated at the rate of 5 per cent per year, compounded with yearly rests.

Commutation of late payments

5.  Any notice of commutation under regulation B7 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 in respect of a sum which becomes payable—

(a) under the amendments contained in these Regulations, and

(b) before the date on which these Regulations come into force,

shall be given within six months of the date on which these Regulations come into force.

Hazel Blears

Minister of State

Home Office

23rd May 2005

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Vernon Coaker

Joan Ryan

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

26th May 2005