The Police Pensions (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 (“the 1987 Regulations”) and the Police Pensions Regulations 2006 (“the 2006 Regulations”) in order to implement recommendations made in the Independent Review of Police Officer and Staff Remuneration and Conditions: Part 1 Report (Cm. 8024: “the Report”).

Regulation 3 of these Regulations amends regulation A19 of the 1987 Regulations and regulation 20 of the 2006 Regulations in order to require a police pension authority, when determining whether to require a police officer to retire in the general interests of efficiency, to take account of the need to retain skills and knowledge within the police force, and the performance of the individual officer. This implements recommendation 57 in the Report.

Regulation 4 of these Regulations amends regulation B1 of the 1987 Regulations in order to allow a senior police officer to defer payment of a pension until the officer reaches normal minimum pension age. No such amendment is necessary in respect of the 2006 Regulations. This implements recommendation 55 in the Report.

Further recommendations in the Report are implemented by amendments to the Police Regulations 2003(1) and to the determinations made by the Secretary of State under those Regulations.

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S.I. 2003/527.