The Police Pensions Regulations 2006

Certificates of pensionable service

77.—(1) This regulation applies where a regular police officer—

(a) has transferred from one force to another, or

(b) having previously ceased to serve as such in one police force, subsequently becomes a regular police officer in another, and

(c) by reason of previous service in a police force is entitled to reckon pensionable service under regulation 12(1)(a), (b), (c) or (d), 13 or 15.

(2) Where this regulation applies, the former police authority shall furnish the current authority with a certificate stating—

(a) the amount of the pensionable service which the regular police officer to whom this regulation applies is entitled to reckon by reason of previous service in a police force in accordance with regulations 10 to 15,

(b) whether or not that police officer has, at the time of leaving service in the force maintained by the former police authority, made an election under regulation 9 (election not to pay pension contributions), and

(c) where that officer is a pension debit member under Part 6, the appropriate percentage by which his future benefits are to be reduced under regulation 36.

(3) On the acceptance of a certificate under paragraph (2) by the current authority, any entitlement of a regular police officer to whom this regulation applies to an award from the former police authority shall cease to have effect.

(4) The former police authority shall furnish a regular police officer to whom this regulation applies with a copy of the certificate furnished under paragraph (2) together with a description of the effect of paragraph (3).

(5) In this regulation (but subject to regulation 96(1))—

“the former police authority” means the police authority of the force first mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (b), as the case may be; and

“the current authority” means the police authority of the force of which the regular police officer is a member.