PART 2Transitional provisions

CHAPTER 4Contributions and final pay

Final salary link : Mental Health Officers17

1

This regulation applies to a 1995 officer transition member—

a

to whom regulation R3(1) of the 1995 Regulations applied on the member’s last day of pensionable service in the 1995 Section;

b

to whom regulation R3(10) or (11) of the 1995 Regulations applied on the member’s last day of pensionable service in the 1995 Section; and

c

who has at least one day of pensionable service in the new scheme (“notional mental health officer service”) which, had it been served in the 1995 Section, would have—

i

satisfied the definition of “mental health officer” in regulation R3(14) of the 1995 Regulations, and

ii

been service to which regulation R3(1) would have applied.

2

Where this regulation applies, the final year’s pensionable pay to be used in the calculation of the member’s benefits under regulation R3(10) or (11) of the 1995 Regulations will be that derived from the member’s notional mental health officer service.