The Police Pensions Regulations 2006

Pensionable service and pension contributions

94.—(1) A serviceman who ceased to serve as a regular police officer in order to undertake a period of relevant service in the reserve forces shall be entitled to reckon that period as pensionable service in his former force, subject, however, to paragraph (2).

(2) Regulations 89, 90 and 92 shall have effect in the case of a serviceman who ceased to serve as a regular police officer in order to undertake a period of relevant service in the reserve forces only if he pays or has paid pension contributions (other than additional or further pension contributions) to the police authority of his former force, as though he had remained a regular police officer in that force, in respect of his period of relevant service in the reserve forces:

Provided that those regulations shall have effect notwithstanding that pension contributions are not or have not been paid as aforesaid by a serviceman in respect of any period during which his service pay is less than his pensionable pay.

(3) In the case of a serviceman who ceased to serve as a regular police officer in order to undertake a period of relevant service in the reserve forces and who immediately before he so ceased to serve was making periodical contributions in accordance with an election under regulation 56 (election to purchase increased benefits)—

(a) his liability to make those contributions to the police authority shall continue during such period of relevant service in the reserve forces, and

(b) regulation 60 shall apply as if, after the words “Part 4” in paragraph (1) of that regulation, there were inserted the words “or Part 9 (servicemen)”

as though he had remained a regular police officer in his former force.