Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 27

The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2003

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    (3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.

Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987
     2. The Police Pensions Regulations 1987[4] are amended in accordance with Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amendment of the Police Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1991
     3. The Police Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1991[5] are amended in accordance with Schedule 2 to these Regulations.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


John Denham,
Minister of State

Home Office
31st December 2002



We consent to the making of these Regulations


John Heppell,

Nick Ainger
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

7th January 2003

(a) in sub-paragraph (b) for the words "includes service" there are substituted the words "includes pensionable service that is reckonable by reason of service or employment", and

(b) in the words following that sub-paragraph for the words "service before" there are substituted the words "pensionable service that is reckonable by reason of service or employment before".

    (3) At the end of paragraph (3) there are inserted the words

" or
(c) if such contributions have ceased to be payable either before or during that period and again become payable more than 2 years after the date of cessation, but on or before the date on which the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2003 come into force, that date, or

(d) if such contributions have ceased to be payable either before or during that period and again become payable more than 2 years after the date of cessation, but after the date on which the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2003 come into force, the date on which they again become payable.".

    (4) For paragraph (4) there is substituted - 

    " (4) In a case where the material date is the date given by paragraph (3)(a) or (b), the additional contributions to be paid are calculated, subject to paragraphs (6) to (11), in accordance with the Table in paragraph (18) by reference to the whole of the woman's pensionable service reckonable by reason of service or employment before 17th May 1990.

    (4A) In a case where the material date is the date given by paragraph (3)(c) or (d), the additional contributions to be paid are such amounts as are determined in accordance with such guidance and Tables as the Government Actuary may issue for the purpose or, in any case where that guidance indicates that special considerations apply, such amounts as the Government Actuary determines for the case in question.".

    (5) At the beginning of paragraph (5) there are inserted the words "In a case where the material date is the date given by paragraph (3)(a) or (b),".

    (6) In paragraphs (7)(b), (10)(b) and (14) for the word "service" there are substituted the words "pensionable service".

    (7) At the beginning of paragraph (13)(a) there are inserted the words "except where the payments are made in pursuance of an election for which the material date is that given by paragraph (3)(c) or (d),".

    (8) In paragraph (15) after the words "pensionable service", in both places where they occur, there are inserted the words "reckonable by reason of service or employment".

    (9) In the Table in paragraph (18) - 

(a) after the words "pensionable service", in the first place where they occur, there are inserted the words "reckonable by reason of service or employment", and

(b) after those words, in the second place where they occur, there are inserted the words "so reckonable".

(a) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000[7] to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance, or

(b) an EEA firm, as defined in paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to that Act, which falls within sub-paragraph (d) of that paragraph and has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurances as a result of satisfying the establishment conditions, as defined in paragraph 13 of that Schedule";

(b) the definition of "the Society" in that paragraph is omitted; and

(c) after that paragraph there is inserted - 

    " (4) The definition of "insurance company" in paragraph (3) must be read with - 


(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000,

(b) any relevant order under that section, and

(c) Schedule 2 to that Act".

     2. In regulations 5(4) and 6(2)(a) (death benefit elections) before the words "the amount to be secured" there are inserted the words "the approved additional voluntary contributions provider with which the contributions are to be invested and".

     3. In regulation 9 (investment of contributions) - 

(a) in paragraph (2) for the words from "with the Society" onwards there are substituted the words "with such approved additional voluntary contributions providers and in such investments managed by those providers as may be selected by the basic contributor", and

(b) in paragraph (3) for the words "with the Society" there are substituted the words "with the approved additional voluntary contributions provider selected by the death benefit contributor".

     4. In regulation 10 (inward transfers) for paragraph (2) there is substituted - 

    " (2) A transfer value accepted by a police authority is to be invested by them with such approved additional voluntary contribution providers and in such investments managed by those providers as may be specified in writing by the basic contributor.".

     5. After regulation 10 there is inserted - 

" Outward transfers
     10A.  - (1) This regulation applies where a police authority receive a request in writing from a participator that they are to apply to the approved additional voluntary contributions provider to realise the pension investment held by the provider in respect of the participator and pay an amount representing the value of the investments made in relation to the participator under these Regulations to the police authority for transmission to the administrator of a scheme or arrangement within paragraph (4) who is willing to receive such a payment in respect of him.

    (2) On receiving such a request the police authority shall transmit it to the approved additional voluntary contributions provider in question and on receiving that amount they shall pay it to the administrator of that scheme or arrangement.

    (3) the payment under paragraph (2) of an amount representing all pension investments in respect of the participator discharges the police authority from all liability in respect of the participator under these Regulations.

    (4) A scheme or arrangement is within this paragraph if - 


(a) the participator is a participator in the scheme or arrangement, and

(b) it is a scheme or arrangement for the time being approved by the Board of Inland Revenue as a scheme or arrangement to which transfers of rights in respect of additional voluntary contributions may be made in the circumstances which apply in the case of the request by the participator in question.".

     6. In regulation 11 (retirement pensions) - 

(a) in paragraph (1) (retirement pension to be payable to the participant for life, commencing on the date of his retirement) for the words "commencing on the date of his retirement" there are substituted the words

" commencing - 
(a) in the case of a participator within paragraph (2), on the date of his retirement, and

(b) in the case of a participator within paragraph (2A), from the date on which the police authority apply the amount obtained under paragraph (6) as mentioned in that paragraph",



(b) in paragraph (2) (obligation to make pension election) after the words "a participator" there are inserted the words "who retires before 1st November 1999",

(c) after that paragraph there is inserted - 

    " (2A) A participator who retires on or after 1st November 1999 is to make a pension election before his 75th birthday",

(d) in paragraph (3) (notice of pension election to specify certain matters relating to the annual rate of the retirement pension and from which of the pension providers it is to be purchased) for the words following paragraph (c) there are substituted the words "and, in the case of a participator within paragraph (2), from which of the pension providers, or in the case of a participator within paragraph (2A), from which insurance company, the pension is to be purchased",

(e) in paragraph (6) (duty to realise investments and purchase pension from specified pension provider) - 


(i) for the words "paragraphs (7) and (8)" there are substituted respectively the words "paragraphs (7) to (8)",

(ii) after the words "pension provider" there are inserted the words "or, as the case may be, insurance company",



(f) in paragraph (7) (power for police authority to purchase pension from alternative pension provider) after the words "paragraph (8)," there are inserted the words "in case of a participator who retires before 1st November 1999", and

(g) after that paragraph there is inserted - 

    " (7A) subject to paragraph (8), in the case of a participator who retires on or after 1st November 1999 and does not make a pension election before his 75th birthday, the police authority shall apply the amount obtained to the purchase from an insurance company of such a retirement pension as appears to them to be suitable having regard to the participator's family circumstances and his age and health".

     7. In regulation 12 (lump sum death benefit) for the words "the Society" there are substituted the words "the approved additional voluntary contributions provider".

     8.  - (1) In regulation 15 (payment by police authority) for the words "police authority", whenever they occur, there are substituted the words "responsible person".

    (2) After paragraph (6) of that regulation there is inserted - 

    " (7) For the purposes of this regulation "the responsible person" means - 


(a) so far as the regulation relates to the payment of a pension or to the payment of a lump sum payable under regulation 11(5), the insurance company from which the pension has been purchased under regulation 11, and

(b) so far as it relates to the payment of a lump sum, the police authority".

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

[3] See section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10).back

[4] S.I. 1987/257, as amended by S.I. 1987/2215, 1988/1339, 1989/733, 1990/805, 1992/1343, 1992/2349, 1994/641, 1995/547, 1995/2020, 1996/867, 1997/2852, 1998/577, 2000/843, 2001/3888.back

[5] S.I. 1991/1304.back

[6] Regulation B1(3)(ba) is amended by S.I. 2002/2529.back

[7] 2000 c. 8.back