Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 2215

The Police Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1987

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1987 No. 2215

POLICE

The Police Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1987

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 1, 3 and 4 of the Police Pensions Act 1976(^[1]), and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, I hereby with the consent of the Treasury(^[2]) make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st February 1988.Interpretation

    2.—(1)  In these Regulations—
 (a) references to the principal Regulations are references to the Police Pensions Regulations 1987(^[3]) as amended by Part III of these Regulations;
 (b) the expression—
"retirement date" means, in relation to a regular policeman and at any particular time, the date on which he could be required to retire on account of age if he continued to serve as such without change of rank, disregarding any postponement of that date under regulation A18(2) of the principal Regulations effected after that time;
"eligible policeman" means a person—
 (a) with service as a regular policeman on or after 1st February 1988, whether or not he is still so serving;
 (b) whose retirement date is, or was when he ceased so to serve, at least 9 years after the date on which he last became a regular policeman; and
 (c) who was not when he ceased so to serve, or would not be on or before his retirement date, entitled to reckon 30 years' pensionable service; and
"sixtieth" means, in relation to any person, a sixtieth (including a fraction of a sixtieth) of his average pensionable pay and "additional sixtieths" and the number thereof means, in relation to a person who has made an election under regulation 3, the number of additional sixtieths to which that election related.

    (2)  Subject to paragraph (1), these Regulations shall be construed as one with the principal Regulations.

[1] 1976 c. 35, as amended by section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10). back

[2] Formerly the Minister for the Civil Service: see S.I. 1981/1670. back

[3] S.I. 1987/257. back

Explanatory Note