The Police Pensions (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2012

Senior officers: delayed payment of ordinary pension

4.—(1) The 1987 Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation B1 (policeman’s ordinary pension)—

(a) in paragraph (5), omit the words after “of that Schedule”;

(b) after paragraph (5) insert—

“(5A) In the case of a person entitled to reckon less than 30 years’ pensionable service, no payments shall be made on account of an ordinary pension in respect of the period (if any) after his retirement and before he has attained the age of 50 years or, if he sooner becomes permanently disabled and he is not ineligible under regulations G7 and G8 for a pension award payable on the grounds of permanent disablement, before he becomes so disabled.

(5B) In the case of a regular policeman above the rank of chief superintendant who gives notice in writing to the police pension authority that he wishes this paragraph to apply to him, no payments shall be made on account of an ordinary pension in respect of the period after his retirement and before he has attained the normal minimum pension age, as defined in section 279(1) of the Finance Act 2004(1).

(5C) Notice under paragraph (5B) may not be given after retirement and, once given, may not be cancelled.”;

(c) in paragraph (7), for “and (5)” substitute “, (5) and (5A)”.

(3) In regulation L3(1)(a) (payment and duration of awards), for “B1(5)” substitute “B1(5A)”.

(4) In paragraph 1(3)(a) of Part I of Schedule C, for “”B1(5)” substitute “B1(5A) and (5B)”.

(5) In Part I of Schedule D—

(a) in paragraph 1(5)(b)(i), for “B1(5)” substitute “B1(5A) and (5B)”;

(b) in paragraph 3(2)(a), for “B1(5)” substitute “B1(5A) and (5B)”.

(6) In Schedule J—

(a) in Part I, for paragraph 2 substitute—

“2.   In the case of a regular policeman who served as such before 8th August 1961, Regulation B1 shall have effect as if paragraph (5A) were omitted.”;

(b) in Part IV, in paragraph 8(1C)(a), after “(5)” insert “, (5A)”;

(c) in Part VII, in paragraph 5(4)(b)(ii), for “(5)” substitute “(5A)”.

(1)

2004 c. 12. There are amendments to the subsection, but none is relevant for these purposes.