The Police Pensions (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003

• Citation: S.I. 2003/2716
• Sections: 8

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 15th November 2003 but shall have effect from 1st April 2002 .

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

Section 2 Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987

The Police Pensions Regulations 1987 shall be amended in accordance with the Schedule to these Regulations.

Section 1

In regulation A17 (retirement)—

(a) sub-paragraph (1)(f) is omitted; and

(b) paragraph (4) is omitted.

Section 2

In regulation F3 (previous service reckonable without payment) sub-paragraph (1)(g) is omitted.

Section 3

In regulation F8A (former police authority to provide certificate of the amount of pensionable service giving entitlement to pension)—

(a) for paragraph (1) there is substituted—

(1) This regulation shall apply where, on or after 31st March 1996, a regular policeman—

(a) by reason of previous service in a police force becomes entitled to reckon pensionable service either—

(i) by virtue of regulation F3(1)(a), or

(ii) by virtue of regulation F5 in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (2) of that regulation (including that paragraph as it has effect by virtue of paragraph (3) thereof), or

(b) has left a police force and joined the Police Service of Northern Ireland with such consent as is mentioned in regulation A17(2) and the police authority for Northern Ireland is contingently liable to make payments to him under the Police Service of Northern Ireland pensions legislation.

(b) sub-paragraph (5)(c) is omitted.

Section 4

Regulation J3A (transfers to the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad: prevention of duplication of entitlement) is omitted.

Section 5

In regulation K4 (withdrawal of pension during service as a regular policeman) sub-paragraph (1)(b) is omitted.

Section 6

In Schedule A (glossary of expressions) the definition “police force” is omitted.