
PART I
1 

(1) These Regulations
shall apply to any person who—
(a) immediately before
the date specified in the next following paragraph was serving in a police
force as the chief constable or deputy chief constable thereof or in the rank
of assistant chief constable;
(b) immediately before
the material date was serving in a police force as the chief constable thereof
and was so serving in that or some other police force on 1st July 1964, or

(c) would have been
such a person as is mentioned in one of the preceding sub-paragraphs but for
the fact that he was engaged on national service on a date mentioned in the
sub-paragraph in question.
(2) The date referred
to in paragraph (1)(a) of this Regulation
is—
(a) in the case of
a person affected by an amalgamation scheme which the Secretary of State has,
by order under Part I of
the Police
Act 1964, made or approved, the date on which
that order was made, or
(b) in the case of
a person affected by an order underPart VI of the Local Government Act 1933
or an order under Part II of
the Local Government
Act 1958, the date on which that order was
made.
2 
Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, every person to
whom these Regulations apply and who suffers loss of office as a member of
a police force or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable to
the provisions of any order under Part VI of
the Local Government
Act 1933 or Part II of
the Local Government
Act 1958 or to the provisions of an amalgamation
scheme which the Secretary of State has made or approved under Part I of the Police Act 1964
shall be entitled to have his case considered for the payment of compensation
under these Regulations and such compensation shall be determined in accordance
with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3 

(1) Where any person
to whom these Regulations apply would have been serving as a member of a police
force immediately before the date specified in Regulation 1(2)
of these Regulations but for any national service on which he was then engaged,
then if before the expiry of two months after ceasing to be so engaged, or
if prevented by sickness or other reasonable cause, as soon as practicable
thereafter, he gives notice to the compensating authority that he is available
for employment, that person shall be entitled to have his case considered
for the payment of compensation on the ground—
(a) if he is not
serving, or offered an appointment, as a member of a police force in his former
rank or in any reasonably comparable employment, of loss of office;
(b) if he is so serving
with reduced emoluments as compared with the emoluments which he would have
enjoyed had he continued to serve as a member of a police force in his former
rank or office, of diminution of emoluments.
(2) The loss of office
which is the ground of a claim for compensation under sub-paragraph (a) of the last foregoing paragraph shall be treated
as having occurred on the earlier of the two following dates, that is to say,
the date of the refusal of an offer of an appointment or a date one month
after the date on which the person gave notice that he was available for employment,
and the claimant shall be deemed to have been entitled to the emoluments which
he would have enjoyed at such earlier date had he continued to serve as a
member of a police force in his former rank.
PART II
4 

(1) The compensating
authority shall, subject to the provisions of these Regulations—
(a) consider and
determine the entitlement to resettlement compensation of every person to
whom this Part of these Regulations applies who claims such compensation and
in relation to whom the conditions set out in the next succeeding Regulation
are satisfied, and
(b) pay the amount
of any compensation so determined.
(2) This Part of these
Regulations applies to a person who at the date of the loss of office had
not attained the age of compulsory retirement and who had been for a period
of not less than three years immediately preceding the material date continuously
engaged (exclusive of breaks not exceeding in the aggregate six months) for
the whole or part of his time in relevant employment; and for this purpose
the expression “relevant employment” 
includes any period of national service immediately following upon such employment
.
5 

(1) Without prejudice
to any other requirement of these Regulations, nothing in these Regulations
shall entitle a person to resettlement compensation unless—
(a) he has suffered
loss of office attributable to the provisions of any such scheme or order
as is mentioned in Regulation 2
of these Regulations not later than ten years after the material date;
(b) he has made
his claim for resettlement compensation in accordance with the provisions
for making claims set out in Part VI
of these Regulations not later than thirteen weeks after the loss of office
which is the cause of his claim;
(c) the loss of
office which is the cause of his claim has occurred for some reason other
than misconduct or incapacity to perform such duties as immediately before
the loss he was performing or might reasonably have been required to perform;
and
(d) he has not,
subject to paragraph (3) of this Regulation, been offered any reasonably comparable
employment under the Crown or in the service of a local authority.
(2) In ascertaining
for the purposes of this Regulation whether a claimant has been offered employment
which is reasonably comparable with the office which he has lost no account
shall be taken of the fact that the employment offered is not employment for
police purposes or the duties thereof are duties which involve a transfer
from one place to another within England or Wales.
(3) No account shall
be taken for the purposes of this Regulation of an offer of employment where
the compensating authority are satisfied—
(a) that acceptance
would have involved undue hardship to the claimant, or
(b) that the claimant
was prevented from accepting the offer by reason of ill-health or other circumstances
beyond his control.
6 

(1) Resettlement compensation
payable to a person to whom this Part of these Regulations applies shall for
each week for which such compensation is payable be a sum ascertained by taking
two thirds of the weekly rate of the net emoluments which the claimant has
lost and deducting therefrom such of the following items as may be applicable:—

(a) unemployment,
sickness or injury benefit under any Act relating to National Insurance at
the current rate for a person having no dependants, in so far as any such
benefit (whether at that or any other rate) is claimable by him in respect
of such week;
(b) two thirds of
the net emoluments received by him in respect of such week from work or employment
undertaken in place of service in a police force;
(c) any pension
to which he is entitled under the Police Pensions Regulations in respect of
such week.
(2) For the purposes
of this Regulation the weekly rate of a claimant's net emoluments shall be
deemed to be seven three hundred and sixty-fifths of those emoluments.
7 
Subject as hereinafter provided, resettlement compensation to a
person to whom this Part of these Regulations applies shall be payable in
respect of the period of thirteen weeks next succeeding the week in which
he ceased to serve as a member of a police force or, in the case of a claimant
who has attained the age of forty-five years, the said thirteen weeks extended
by one additional week for every year of his age after attaining the age of
forty-five years and before he ceased so to serve subject to a maximum addition
of thirteen such weeks.
8 
Every claimant for resettlement compensation shall (after as well
as before the compensation begins to be paid)—
(a) forthwith supply
the compensating authority in writing with particulars of any employment which
he obtains or of any change in his earnings from any such employment, and

(b) if the compensating
authority so requires, so long as he is out of employment and is not receiving
sickness or injury benefit, register with the Ministry of Labour.
9 
Resettlement compensation shall be payable to a claimant at intervals
equivalent to those at which his emoluments as a member of a police force
were previously paid or at such other intervals as may be agreed between the
claimant and the compensating authority and shall forthwith be terminated
by the compensating authority—
(a) if without reasonable
cause the claimant fails to comply with any of the provisions of Regulation 8 of these Regulations,
or
(b) if, on being requested
to do so, he fails to satisfy the compensating authority that, so far as he
is able, he is seeking suitable employment.
PART III
10 

(1) The compensating
authority shall, subject to the provisions of these Regulations—
(a) consider and
determine the entitlement to long-term and retirement compensation of every
person to whom this and the next succeeding Part of these Regulations apply
who claims such compensation and in relation to whom the conditions set out
in the next succeeding Regulation are satisfied, and
(b) pay the amount
of any compensation so determined.
(2) This Part and Part IV of these Regulations apply
to a person who at the date of loss of office or loss or diminution of emoluments
had not attained the age of compulsory retirement and who had been for a period
of not less than eight years immediately preceding the material date continuously
engaged (without a break of more than twelv months at any one time) for the
whole or part of his time in relevant employment (which expression for this
purpose includes any period of national service immediately following such
employment).
11 

(1) Without prejudice
to any other requirement of these Regulations, nothing in these Regulations
shall entitle a person to long-term or retirement compensation unless—

(a) he has suffered
loss of office as a member of a police force or loss or diminution of emoluments
attributable to the provisions of any such scheme or order as is mentioned
in Regulation 2
of these Regulations not later than ten years after the material date;
(b) he has made
his claim for compensation in accordance with the provisions for making claims
set out in Part VI
of these Regulations not later than two years after the loss or diminution
which is the cause of the claim, and
(c) if the cause
of the claim for compensation is loss of office as a member of a police force—

(i) he suffered
such loss for some reason other than misconduct or incapacity to perform such
duties as immediately before the loss he was performing or might reasonably
have been required to perform; and
(ii) he has
not been offered any reasonably comparable employment under the Crown or in
the service of a local authority.
(2) 
Regulation 5(2) and (3) of these Regulations
as to offers of employment shall apply for the purposes of this Regulation.

(3) Claims for long-term
and retirement compensation for loss of office shall in all respects be treated
as claims for such compensation for the loss of emoluments occasioned thereby
and the provisions of these Regulations shall apply to all such claims accordingly.

12 

(1) For the purpose
of determining whether long-term or retirement compensation for loss or diminution
of emoluments should be paid to a claimant, and if so the amount of the compensation
(subject to the limits set out in these Regulations) regard shall be had to
such of the following factors as may be relevant, that is to say:—
(a) the conditions
applicable to the claimant's former service as a member of a police force;

(b) the conditions
applicable to the work or employment undertaken by him in place of that service;

(c) the extent
to which he has sought suitable employment and the emoluments which he might
have acquired by accepting other suitable employment offered to him;
(d) the amount
of any award, otherwise than by way of return of pension contributions, to
which he is entitled under the Police Pensions Regulations; and
(e) all the other
circumstances of his case:Provided that if
at the time when the claimant became a member of the police force in which
he was serving immediately before the material date, or would have been so
serving but for any national service on which he was then engaged, proceedings
had been commenced under the Local Government Act 1933,
the Local Government Act 1958
or the Police Act 1964
which led to the order or scheme being made or approved, to which his loss
of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments is attributable, no account
shall be taken of that fact.
(2) For the purposes
of the last foregoing paragraph—
(a) a reference
to the conditions applicable to any service, work or employment shall be construed
as a reference to all the conditions of service applicable thereto, by law
or practice, including, in particular, those relating to emoluments and security
of tenure; and
(b) paragraph (3) of Regulation 5
of these Regulations shall apply as it applies for the purposes of that Regulation.

13 

(1) In the case of
a person to whom this Part of these Regulations applies, long-term compensation
for loss of emoluments shall, subject to the provisions of these Regulations,
be payable until the age of compulsory retirement or death, whichever first
occurs, and shall not exceed a maximum annual sum calculated in accordance
with the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) of this Regulation.
(2) The said maximum
annual sum shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be the aggregate of the
following sums, namely—
(a) for every
year of the claimant's reckonable service, one sixtieth of the net emoluments
he has lost; and
(b) in the case
of a claimant who has attained the age of forty years at the date of the loss,
a sum calculated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3) of this
Regulation appropriate to his age at that date:Provided that the
said maximum annual sum shall in no case exceed two thirds of the net emoluments
which the claimant has lost.
(3) The sum referred
to in sub-paragraph (b) of the last foregoing
paragraph shall be—
(a) in the case
of a claimant who has attained the age of forty years but has not attained
the age of fifty years at the date of the loss, the following fraction of
the net emoluments he has lost—
(i) where
the claimant's reckonable service is less than ten years, one sixtieth for
each year of such service after attaining the age of forty years; or
(ii) where
the claimant's reckonable service amounts to ten years but is less than fifteen
years, one sixtieth for each year of such service after attaining the age
of forty years and one additional sixtieth; or
(iii) where
the claimant's reckonable service amounts to fifteen years but is less than
twenty years, one sixtieth for each year of such service after attaining the
age of forty years and two additional sixtieths; or
(iv) where
the claimant's reckonable service amounts to twenty years or more, one sixtieth
for each year of such service after attaining the age of forty years and three
additional sixtieths;but the sum so calculated shall not in any case exceed one sixth
of the said net emoluments;
(b) in the case
of a claimant who has attained the age of fifty years but has not attained
the age of sixty years at the date of the loss, one sixtieth of the said net
emoluments for each year of the claimant's reckonable service after attaining
the age of forty years, up to a maximum of fifteen such years; and
(c) in the case
of a claimant who has attained the age of sixty years at the date of the loss,
one sixtieth of the said net emoluments for each year of the claimant's reckonable
service after attaining the age of forty-five years.
(4) Where a person
has become entitled to a pension under the Police Pensions Regulations, the
maximum annual sum referred to in paragraph (1) of this Regulation shall be
the maximum sum calculated in accordance with paragraph (2) of this Regulation,
but as if the pension had not been payable, less the annual amount of that
pension.
(5) Where a sum is
payable under this Regulation in respect of any period and resettlement compensation
has also been paid in respect of that period, the said sum shall be limited
to the amount (if any) by which it exceeds the resettlement compensation paid
as aforesaid.
(6) Compensation awarded
under this Regulation shall be payable at intervals equivalent to those at
which the claimant's emoluments as a member of a police force were previously
paid or at such intervals as may be agreed between him and the compensating
authority.
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In the case of a person to whom this Part of these Regulations
applies long-term compensation for diminution of emoluments in respect of
any employment shall be awarded and paid in accordance with the following
provisions—
(a) the compensation
shall consist of an annual sum which shall be payable at intervals equivalent
to those at which the emoluments of the claimant's employment are or were
previously paid or at such other intervals as may be agreed between the claimant
and the compensating authority, and shall, subject to the provisions of these
Regulations, be payable until the age of compulsory retirement or death, whichever
first occurs; and
(b) the said annual
sum shall not exceed the figure which bears to the maximum annual sum which
could have been awarded under Regulation 13
of these Regulations had the claim been made under that Regulation, the same
ratio as the amount by which his net emoluments have been diminished (calculated
as an annual amount) bears to the amount of his net emoluments, so however,
that no compensation shall be payable if this ratio is less than 2½
per cent.
15 

(1) Long-term compensation
shall commence to be payable with effect from the date of the claim or from
such earlier date as is mentioned in the succeeding provisions of this Regulation.

(2) Where a claim
for long-term compensation is duly made within thirteen weeks of the occurrence
of the loss or diminution which is the subject of the claim, the award shall
be made retrospective to the date on which the loss or diminution occurred.

(3) Where a claim
for long-term compensation is made after the expiry of the period mentioned
in the last foregoing paragraph, the award may at the discretion of the compensating
authority be made retrospective to a date not earlier than thirteen weeks
prior to the date on which the claim was made:Provided that, if the
compensating authority are satisfied that the failure to make the claim within
the period mentioned in the last foregoing paragraph was due to ill-health
or other circumstances beyond the claimant's control, the award may be made
retrospective to a date not earlier than that on which the loss or diminution
occurred.
PART IV
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(1) Subject as hereinafter
provided, where a person to whom this Part of these Regulations applies who
has not attained the age of compulsory retirement would, if he had continued
to serve as a member of a police force have become entitled to retire with
an ordinary or ill-health pension under the Police Pensions Regulations, he
shall become entitled to claim, in lieu of any compensation to which he would
otherwise be entitled under these Regulations, compensation calculated in
accordance with paragraph (2) of this Regulation.
(2) Compensation payable
to a person in accordance with this Regulation shall, subject as hereinafter
provided, be payable at an annual rate equal to that of—
(a) the ordinary
or ill-health pension to which he would have become entitled as aforesaid,
calculated by reference to his average pensionable pay (or, where appropriate,
his preserved pensionable pay) immediately before he ceased to serve as a
member of a police force; or
(b) his notional
pension calculated in accordance with Regulation 21
of these Regulations,whichever is the less.
(3) On receipt of a
claim under paragraph (1) of this Regulation, the compensating authority shall
consider forthwith whether the claimant is a person to whom that paragraph
applies, and within thirteen weeks after the date of the receipt of the claim—

(a) if they are
satisfied that he is not such a person, they shall notify him in writing accordingly;
and
(b) if they are
satisfied that he is such a person, they shall assess the amount of compensation
payable to the person, and notify him in writing accordingly,and any such notification shall, for the purposes of these Regulations,
be deemed to be a notification by the authority of a decision on a claim to
compensation.
(4) If a claimant wishes
to receive compensation under this Regulation, he shall so inform the compensating
authority in writing within one month from the receipt of a notification under
the last preceding paragraph or, where the claim has been the subject of an
appeal, from the decision of the tribunal thereon; and the compensation shall
be payable as from the date on which the compensating authority received the
claim.
(5) In the case of
a person who claims, for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this Regulation,
that he would, if he had continued to serve as a member of a police force,
have become entitled to retire with an ill-health pension under the Police
Pensions Regulations, the compensating authority may require him to submit
himself to a medical examination by a registered medical practitioner selected
by that authority, and, if they do so, they shall also offer the person an
opportunity of submitting a report from his own medical adviser as a result
of an examination by him, and the authority shall take that report into consideration,
together with the report of the medical practitioner selected by them.
(6) If the compensating
authority so agree, in the case of a person who has not attained the age of
sixty years but would have become entitled to retire with an ordinary pension,
as aforesaid, if the police authority so decided, it shall be assumed for
the purposes of this Regulation that they would have so decided.
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(1) If a person to
whom this Part of these Regulations applies has suffered loss of office after
attaining the age of fifty years and so requests the compensating authority
by notice in writing, he shall be entitled as from the date on which the compensating
authority receive such notice, in lieu of any compensation, other than resettlement
compensation, to which he would otherwise be entitled under these Regulations,
to compensation calculated in accordance with paragraph (2) of this Regulation:
Provided that where he
has claimed long-term compensation, the said notice shall be given not later
than two years after the determination of the claim or, where the determination
is reviewed under Regulation 28(3)
of these Regulations, not later than two years after any such review.
(2) Compensation payable
to a person in accordance with this Regulation shall be payable at an annual
rate equal to that at which an ill-health pension would have been payable
under the Police Pensions Regulations had he retired with such a pension when
he ceased to serve as a member of a police force.
(3) Regulation 16(3) of these Regulations
shall apply in relation to a notice given under paragraph (1) of this Regulation
as it applies to a claim made under Regulation 16(1).

(4) Where an annual
sum is payable under this Regulation in respect of any period and resettlement
compensation is also payable in respect of that period, the said annual sum
shall be limited to the amount (if any) by which it exceeds the resettlement
compensation payable as aforesaid.
18 

(1) Subject to the
provisions of these Regulations, where a person to whom this Part of these
Regulations applies reaches the age of compulsory retirement, the retirement
compensation payable to him for loss of emoluments shall be payable at an
annual rate equal to that of his notional pension calculated in accordance
with Regulation 21
of these Regulations.
(2) Compensation shall
not be payable under this Regulation to a claimant to whom 
Regulation 16 or 17 of these Regulations has
been applied.
19 
The provisions of Regulations 16
and 18
of these Regulations shall apply to a person to whom this Part of these Regulations
applies and who has suffered diminution of emoluments, but the sums payable
to such a person in the circumstances mentioned in those Regulations shall
be sums which bear to the sums which would have been payable thereunder had
the claim been in respect of loss of office the same ratio as the amount by
which the claimant's net emoluments have been diminished (calculated as an
annual rate) bears to the amount of his net emoluments:
Provided that no compensation
shall be payable if this ratio is less than 2½ per cent.
20 

(1) This Regulation
shall apply to a person who, after suffering loss of office or diminution
of emoluments as a member of a police force, enters employment in which he
is subject to a pension scheme and thereafter becomes entitled to reckon service
for the purposes of that scheme by virtue of any pensionable service which
is taken into account for the purpose of any award or notional award, under
the Police Pensions Regulations, by reference to which the amount of any retirement
compensation payable to him falls to be assessed.
(2) No retirement compensation
for loss of office or diminution of emoluments shall be payable to a person
to whom this Regulation applies unless the annual rate of the emoluments to
which he was entitled immediately before such loss or diminution exceeds the
annual rate, on entry, of the emoluments of the new employment by more than
2½ per cent. of such first mentioned emoluments.
(3) Subject to Regulation 26 of these Regulations,
any retirement compensation for loss of office or diminution of emoluments
payable to a person to whom this Regulation applies shall be payable at the
rate at which compensation for loss of office would be payable—
(a) in the case
of any retirement compensation, if for the purpose of calculating any pension
or notional pension under the Police Pensions Regulations by reference to
which it falls to be assessed, his average pensionable pay (or, where appropriate,
his preserved pensionable pay) had been of an amount corresponding to the
difference between the two rates referred to in the preceding paragraph; and

(b) in the case
of retirement compensation for diminution of emoluments, if Regulation 19 of these Regulations
had not been made:Provided that retirement
compensation for diminution of emoluments shall not by virtue of this paragraph
be payable to a person at an annual rate in excess of that of the retirement
compensation which would have been payable under Regulation 19
had this Regulation not been made and had the person reached the age of compulsory
retirement when he ceased to hold the office in which he suffered diminution.

21 

(1) The notional pension
referred to in Regulations 16
and 18
of these Regulations is one payable at an annual rate at which an ill-health
pension would have been payable under the Police Pensions Regulations to the
person concerned—
(a) if he had retired
with such a pension on the date on which he lost office as a member of a police
force or suffered diminution of emoluments; and
(b) in the case
of a person who had attained the age of forty years at that date, if, in addition
to the pensionable service reckonable under the Police Pensions Regulations,
he had been entitled to reckon an additional period of pensionable service
in accordance with paragraph (2) of this Regulation and, for the purpose of
determining the reduction (if any) falling to be made in that pension beyond
the age of sixty-five years or, in the case of a woman, sixty years, if he
had paid pension contributions as a regular policeman in respect of that period
at a rate related to 1s. 2d. a week less than the appropriate percentage of
his pensionable pay.
(2) The additional
period of pensionable service referred to in the preceding paragraph shall
be a period of two years together with—
(a) a further two
years for each of the first four completed years of the person's reckonable
service between the date when he attained the age of forty years and the date
of the loss or diminution; and
(b) a further year
for each completed year of such service after the four:Provided that the
additional period of pensionable service shall not exceed the shortest of
the following periods, namely—
(i) 
the period for which the person would have served as a member of a police
force after the date of the loss or diminution had he continued so to serve
until he attained the age of compulsory retirement,
(ii) 
his period of reckonable service, or
(iii) 
fifteen years.
(3) For the purposes
of the preceding paragraph the expression “reckonable service” includes any period of service or employment which has been taken
into account for the purposes of any award under the Police Pensions Regulations
to which the person concerned has become entitled.
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(1) A person entitled
to retirement compensation under Regulation 16, 17 or 18
of these Regulations shall pay to the compensating authority an amount equal
to any award by way of return of pension contributions received by him under
the Police Pensions Regulations on ceasing to be a member of a police force
but, where he has made the said payment to the compensating authority before
becoming entitled to retirement compensation as aforesaid, that authority
may, at his request before he becomes so entitled, refund the payment to him;
and if the said payment is not made to the compensating authority, or is refunded
by them, the compensation shall be reduced by an annual amount the capital
value of which is equal to the amount of the said award under the Police Pensions
Regulations.
(2) The provisions
of the Police Pensions Regulations relating to the allocation of a pension,
that is to say to the surrender by a regular policeman of a portion of his
pension in favour of his wife or such other person as is substantially dependent
on him, shall, subject to any necessary modifications have effect in relation
to any retirement compensation as they have effect in relation to an ordinary
or ill-health pension under the Police Pensions Regulations; and without prejudice
to the generality of the preceding provisions of this paragraph—
(a) where before
the date of the loss or diminution a member of a police force has, under the
Police Pensions Regulations, given notice of allocation which has become effective,
the said provisions shall apply as if the retirement compensation were an
ordinary pension; and
(b) the said provisions
shall apply as if any reference to the police authority included a reference
to the compensating authority and as if any reference to retirement included
a reference to a person becoming entitled to retirement compensation.
(3) Where a pension
or notional pension under the Police Pensions Regulations by a reference to
which any retirement compensation falls to be assessed would, under those
Regulations, be reduced in respect of any period beyond the age of sixty-five
years in the case of a man, or sixty years in the case of a woman, the retirement
compensation shall be re-assessed on the person attaining that age, account
being taken of the said reduction.
(4) Where a person
to whom retirement compensation is payable is in employment in which he is
subject to a pension scheme, then, as the compensating authority may think
reasonable having regard to the said pension scheme, they may on awarding,
or reviewing under Regulation 28
of these Regulations, the compensation reduce or withold so much thereof as
is attributable to the provisions of Regulation 21(1)(b)
of these Regulations.
(5) Where a person
to whom retirement compensation is payable is, for any period, in such service
or employment that if a pension were payable to him under the Police Pensions
Regulations the police authority would be empowered to withdraw the whole
or any part of the pension the compensating authority shall have the like
power to withdraw the compensation.
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(1) Where a person
dies after suffering loss of office as a member of a police force, by way
of compensation the like payments—
(a) shall be made
to or for the benefit of his widow or child;
(b) may be made
to any relative who was at the time of his death dependent on him to any degree,
as would or, as the case may be, could have been payable by way
of an award under the Police Pensions Regulations—
(i) if he had retired
with a pension under those Regulations on the date on which he lost office
as a member of a police force; and
(ii) in the case
of a person who had attained the age of forty years on that date, other than
a person who became entitled to retirement compensation under Regulation 17 of these Regulations,
if in addition to the pensionable service reckonable under the Police Pensions
Regulations he had been entitled to reckon the additional period of pensionable
service mentioned in Regulation 21(2)
of these Regulations:Provided that the
payments by way of compensation referred to in sub-paragraph (
a) of this paragraph shall not, by reason of sub-paragraph (ii)
of this paragraph, exceed those which would have been payable by way of pension
or allowance under the Police Pensions Regulations, calculated by reference
to the person's average pensionable pay (or, where appropriate, his preserved
pensionable pay) immediately before he ceased to serve as a member of a police
force, if he had continued to serve as such until he died.
(2) Where a person
dies after suffering diminution of emoluments, the preceding paragraph shall
apply with the substitution of references to diminution of emoluments for
references to loss of office if the compensation calculated in accordance
therewith is assessed by reference to the person's average pensionable pay
(or, where appropriate, his preserved pensionable pay), but the compensation
payable shall be that proportion of the compensation so calculated which the
amount by which the person's net emoluments have been diminished (calculated
as an annual amount) bears to the amount of his net emoluments:Provided that no compensation
shall be payable in accordance with this paragraph if the said proportion
is less than 2½ per cent.
(3) Compensation payable
in accordance with this Regulation shall be payable on the like conditions
in all respects as the corresponding award under the Police Pensions Regulations
and, accordingly, the provisions of those Regulations (including any provision
for the commutation of a pension or allowance for a gratuity) shall apply,
subject to any necessary modifications, in relation to such compensation as
they apply in relation to such an award.
(4) Except where retirement
compensation payable to the deceased person has been reduced under Regulation 22(1) of these Regulations,
the payments by way of compensation under this Regulation shall, in the aggregate,
be reduced by an amount the capital value whereof is equal to the amount of
any award by way of return of pension contributions received by him under
the Police Pensions Regulations and either not paid to the compensating authority
in accordance with the said Regulation 22(1) or refunded to him by that authority;
and, where payments under this Regulation are made to or for the benefit of
two or more persons, the said reduction shall be apportioned between those
payments according to the capital value thereof.
(5) In this and the
next following Regulation the expression “child” 
has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations and related expressions
shall be construed accordingly.
24 

(1) Where compensation
under this Part of these Regulations is payable to a person who has lost office
as a member of a police force or to or for the benefit of his widow or child
and a pension or allowance under the Police Pensions Regulations is also so
payable, the annual amount of the compensation shall be abated by the annual
amount of the corresponding pension or allowance.
(2) For the purposes
of this Regulation, where a pension has been reduced under the provisions
of the Police Pensions Regulations—
(a) relating to
the allocation of a portion of a pension and mentioned in Regulation 22(2) of these Regulations,
or
(b) relating to
the commutation of a portion of a pension for a lump sum,the annual amount of that pension shall be deemed to be the annual
amount which would have been payable but for the said reduction.
(3) For the purposes
of this Regulation no account shall be taken of a pension payable to a widow
or child under the Police Pensions Regulations by reason of the allocation
by the husband or father of a portion of his pension.
25 
Retirement compensation and other compensation awarded as annual
sums under this Part of these Regulations shall be payable in advance at intervals
equivalent to those at which the corresponding award under the Police Pensions
Regulations would have been payable or at such other intervals as may be agreed
between the recipient and the compensating authority.
PART V
26 

(1) This Regulation
shall apply to a person who, after suffering loss of office as a member of
a police force or diminution of emoluments, enters employment in which he
is subject to a pension scheme and thereafter a superannuation benefit becomes
payable to or in respect of him under that scheme for the purposes of which
service is reckonable—
(a) by virtue of
any reckonable service by reference to which any long-term compensation payable
to him falls to be assessed; or
(b) by virtue of
any pensionable service which is taken into account for the purposes of any
award or notional award under the Police Pensions Regulations, by reference
to which the amount of any retirement compensation or compensation payable
on death, payable to or in respect of him, falls to be assessed.
(2) The compensating
authority may adjust the long-term compensation, retirement compensation or
compensation payable on death, as the case may be, payable to or in respect
of a person to whom this Regulation applies, by withholding or reducing the
compensation in accordance with this Regulation, in respect of any period
for which the benefit mentioned in the preceding paragraph is payable.
(3) If the part of any
superannuation benefit by way of annual amounts which is attributable to a
period of service reckonable as mentioned in paragraph (1) of this Regulation
equals or exceeds the part of any compensation which is attributable to the
reckonable or pensionable service so mentioned, that part of the compensation
may be withheld, but if such part of the superannuation benefit is less than
such part of the compensation, the compensation may be reduced by an amount
not exceeding such part of the superannuation benefit.
(4) Where retirement
compensation is payable to a person to whom this Regulation applies who had
attained the age of forty years at the date of loss of office or diminution
of emoluments, then, if the compensation is assessed by reference to his notional
pension calculated in accordance with Regulation 21
of these Regulations, the compensation may be reduced by that part thereof
as is attributable to the additional period of pensionable service referred
to in paragraph (2) of the said Regulation or by so much of that part as appears
appropriate to the compensating authority, having regard to—
(a) the proportion
that additional period of pensionable service bears to the period of subsequent
employment mentioned in paragraph (1) of this Regulation; and
(b) the provisions
under which service is reckonable for the purposes of the relevant pension
scheme as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)
of this Regulation.
(5) Where compensation
has been calculated in accordance with Regulation 20
of these Regulations, the provisions of this Regulation shall apply only in
relation to such part (if any) of the superannuation benefit as is attributable
to annual emoluments in excess of those to which the person concerned was
entitled on entering the new employment referred to in the said Regulation
20.
(6) Where compensation
is payable in respect of diminution of emoluments, the provisions of this
Regulation shall apply only in relation to such part (if any) of the superannuation
benefit as is attributable to annual emoluments in excess of those to which
the person concerned was entitled immediately prior to the diminution.
27 
Where—
(a) a person after suffering
loss of office or diminution of emoluments enters any employment referred
to in Regulation 20(1)
of these Regulations or becomes entitled to any superannuation benefit on
ceasing to hold such employment; or
(b) a person entitled
to long-term compensation enters employment the remuneration whereof is payable
out of public funds, or ceases to hold such employment, or receives any increase
in his remuneration in such employment, or
(c) a person entitled
to retirement compensation enters service or employment by virtue of which
the compensation may be withdrawn under Regulation 22(5)
of these Regulations, or ceases to be in such service or employment, or receives
any increase in his remuneration in such service or employment,
he shall forthwith inform the compensating authority in
writing of that fact.
28 

(1) The compensating
authority shall, within a period of two years after the date on which any
decision on a claim for long-term or retirement compensation for loss of office
as a member of a police force (other than compensation payable under Regulation 17 of these Regulations)
is notified to a claimant under Regulation 30
of these Regulations, review their decision or, where the claim has been the
subject of an appeal, the decision of the tribunal at intervals of not more
than six months, and these Regulations shall apply in relation to any such
review as they apply in relation to the initial determination of the claim;
and on such review, in the light of any material change in the circumstances
of the case, compensation may be awarded, or compensation previously awarded
may be increased, reduced or discontinued, subject to the limits set out in
these Regulations.
(2) The claimant may
require the compensating authority to carry out the review mentioned in the
last foregoing paragraph at any time within the period of two years mentioned
in that paragraph if he considers that there has been a change in the circumstances
of his case which is material for the purposes of these Regulations.
(3) The compensating
authority shall carry out a review in accordance with paragraph (1) of this
Regulation, notwithstanding the expiration of the period mentioned in that
paragraph if—
(a) the emoluments
of employment or work undertaken in place of service as a member of a police
force had been taken into account in determining the amount of any compensation
awarded, and
(b) such employment
or work has been lost or the emoluments thereof reduced, otherwise than by
reason of misconduct or incapacity to perform such duties as he might reasonably
have been required to perform, and
(c) the compensating
authority is satisfied that such loss or reduction is causing hardship to
the claimant,and where any decision is so reviewed, the decision shall be subject
to further review in accordance with paragraph (1).of this Regulation as if
the review carried out under this paragraph had been the initial determination
of the claim.
(4) Paragraphs (1) and
(2) of this Regulation shall apply in relation to any decision on a claim
for long-term or retirement compensation in respect of diminution of emoluments
as they apply in respect of any decision mentioned in the said paragraph (1):
Provided that—
(a) 
no review shall take place after the date on which the claimant ceases to
hold the office in which his emoluments were diminished, except a review as
at that date; and
(b) 
while the claimant continues to hold that office there shall be no limit to
the period within which a review may take place.
(5) Notwithstanding
anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Regulation, the compensating
authority shall review a decision (whether of the authority or the tribunal)
on a claim for long-term compensation for loss of office or diminution of
emoluments as a member of a police force after the expiration of any period
within which a review is required to be made if at any time—
(a) the claimant is engaged in employment (hereinafter referred to as
his 
“current employment”) the remuneration whereof
is payable out of public funds and which he has undertaken in place of service
as a member of a police force, and
(b) the aggregate
of the net emoluments of his current employment and the long-term compensation
payable to him exceed his net emoluments as a member of a police force or,
as the case may be, the amount of those emoluments prior to their diminution,
and the authority shall thereafter further review such decision
whenever the net emoluments of the claimant's current employment are increased;
but if on any such review the compensation is reduced, it shall not be reduced
below the amount by which the net emoluments of the claimant's current employment
fall short of his net emoluments as member of a police force or, as the case
may be, the amount of those emoluments prior to their diminution.
(6) The compensating
authority shall give to a claimant not less than fourteen days' notice of
any review to be carried out under this Regulation otherwise than at his request.

(7) Nothing in this
Regulation shall preclude the making of any adjustment of compensation required
by any other provision of these Regulations.
29 

(1) In a case where
compensation which has been or might be awarded under these Regulations does
not exceed £26 a year, the compensating authority may, at their discretion,
compound their liability in respect thereof by paying a lump sum equivalent
to the capital value of the annual sum.
(2) In any other case
the compensating authority may, if the person who has been awarded long-term
or retirement compensation requests them to do so and they, in their discretion,
after having regard to the state of health of that person and the other circumstances
of the case, deem fit, compound up to one quarter of their liability to make
payments under the award (other than payments to a widow or child under Regulation 23 of these Regulations)
by the payment of an equivalent amount as a lump sum.
(3) The making of a
composition under paragraph (2) of this Regulation in relation to an award
of long-term or retirement compensation shall not prevent the subsequent making
of a composition under paragraph (1) of this Regulation in relation to that
award, but, subject as aforesaid, not more than one composition may be made
in relation to any award.
PART VI
30 

(1) Every claim for
compensation under these Regulations and every request for a review of an
award of long-term or retirement compensation shall be made in accordance
with the provisions of this Regulation.
(2) Every such claim
and request shall be made to the compensating authority in a form approved
by the Secretary of State for the purpose and shall state whether any other
claim for compensation has been made by the claimant under these Regulations.

(3) Resettlement compensation
shall be claimed separately from any other form of compensation claimable
under these Regulations.
(4) The compensating
authority shall consider any such claim or request in accordance with the
relevant provisions of these Regulations and shall notify the claimant in
writing of their decision—
(a) in the case
of a claim for resettlement compensation, not later than one month after the
receipt of the claim, and
(b) in the case
of a claim for, or request for the review of an award of, compensation under Part III or Part IV of these Regulations,
not later than thirteen weeks after the receipt of the claim or request, and

(c) in any other
case, as soon as may be after the decision.
(5) Every notification
of a decision by the compensating authority (whether granting or refusing
compensation or reviewing an award, or otherwise affecting any compensation
under these Regulations) shall contain a statement—
(a) giving reasons
for the decision;
(b) showing how
any compensation has been calculated and, in particular, if the amount is
less than the maximum which could have been awarded under these Regulations,
showing the factors taken into account in awarding that amount; and
(c) directing the
attention of the claimant to his right, if he is aggrieved by the decision,
to refer the matter to the tribunal, and giving him the address of the office
to which the reference should be sent.
31 

(1) Any person claiming
or receiving compensation or whose award of compensation is being reviewed
shall furnish all such information and supplementary information as the compensating
authority or the tribunal may at any time reasonably require; and shall verify
the same in any such manner, including the production of books or of original
documents in his possession or control, as may be reasonably so required.

(2) Any such person
as aforesaid shall, on receipt of reasonable notice, present himself for interview
at any such place as the compensating authority or the tribunal may reasonably
require.
(3) Any person who
attends for interview as aforesaid may, if he so desires, be represented by
his adviser.
32 

(1) In the event of
the death of a claimant or of a person who, if he had survived, could have
been a claimant, the claim for compensation under these Regulations may be
continued or made (as the case may be) by his personal representative.
(2) Where any such
claim is continued or made as aforesaid by a personal representative, the
personal representative shall, as respects any steps to be taken or thing
to be done by him in order to continue or make the claim, be deemed for the
purposes of these Regulations to be the claimant, but, save as aforesaid,
the person in right of whom he continues or makes the claim shall be deemed
for all the purposes of these Regulations to be the claimant, and the relevant
provisions of these Regulations shall be construed accordingly:Provided that the compensating
authority may in any such case extend the period within which a claim is required
to be made by Regulation 5
or 11
of these Regulations.
33 
For the purpose of making any calculation under these Regulations
in respect of a person's reckonable service, all periods of such service shall
be aggregated, and if the aggregated service includes a fraction of a year,
that fraction shall, if it equals or exceeds six months, be treated as a year,
and in any other case be disregarded.
34 

(1) Subject to any
statutory provision in that behalf, any compensation under these Regulations
shall be paid by the compensating authority and (except in the case of compensation
payable in accordance with Regulation 23(3)
of these Regulations) shall be payable to, or in trust for, the person who
is entitled to receive it, and shall not be assignable.
(2) Any sum payable
as compensation to a person by a compensating authority shall be recoverable
as a debt due from the authority.
35 

(1) Every claimant
who is aggrieved by any decision of the compensating authority with respect
to compensation under these Regulations or by any failure on the part of the
compensating authority to notify him of any such decision within the appropriate
time prescribed by these Regulations may within three months of the notification
to him of the decision or the expiry of the prescribed time, as the case may
be, refer the matter to the tribunal.
(2) Reference of a
matter to the tribunal as aforesaid by a claimant shall be made in writing.

(3) On receipt of such
a reference, the tribunal shall consider and determine the matter in accordance
with the provisions of these Regulations and the compensating authority shall
give effect to the decision of the tribunal with any modification that may
be required in consequence of any appeal from the decision on a point of law.

(4) On any such reference
the tribunal may, if it thinks fit, appoint a person having special knowledge
or experience in relation to the subject matter of the reference to sit with
the tribunal as an assessor.
36 
Any payment made by a person to a compensating authority under Regulation 22(1) of these Regulations,
by reason that he has received an award by way of return of pension contributions
under the Police Pensions Regulations, shall, except in so far as it has been
refunded to him, be applied to the payment of compensation which the authority
are liable to pay under Part IV
of these Regulations.
37 

(1) This Regulation
shall apply in the case of the chief constable of a police force who—

(a) after becoming
a member of another force by virtue of section 58
of the Police
Act 1964, ceases to be a member of that force
without having accepted and taken up an appointment therein, and
(b) was the chief
constable of a police force on 1st July 1964.
(2) Notwithstanding
anything in these Regulations, in the case of a person to whom this Regulation
applies payments by way of compensation shall be made to or in respect of
him of the like amounts, and on the like conditions in all respects, as would
have been so made under the Police Pensions Regulations had the police force
first mentioned in this Regulation been combined with another police force
under the Police Act 1946
and he had neither been transferred to the combined force nor joined it within
three months.
(3) For the purposes
of this Regulation, the amount of any payment by way of compensation which
would have been made under the Police Pensions Regulations, in the aforesaid
circumstances, shall be the amount of the pension or allowance which would
have been payable in those circumstances less the amount of the pension or
allowance to which there is in fact entitlement under the Police Pensions
Regulations.
PART VII
38 

(1) In these Regulations,
unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the
meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—
 “age of compulsory retirement”
 means, in relation to a member of a
police force, the age at which he would become liable to be required to retire
on account of age under the Police Pensions Regulations;
 “compensating authority”
 means, in the case of any person or
class of persons who suffer loss of office or loss or diminution of emoluments
as a member of a police force which is attributable to the provisions of any
such order or scheme as is mentioned in Regulation 2
of these Regulations, the authority designated by that order or scheme as
the compensating authority for the purpose of the application of these Regulations
in relation to that person or class of persons;
 “emoluments” means all salary, wages, fees and other payments paid or made to a person,
for his own use, and by virtue of his employment, and includes the money value
of any apartments, rations or other allowances in kind appertaining to his
employment, but does not include payments for overtime, other than payments
which are a usual incident of his employment, or any allowances payable to
him to cover the cost of providing office accommodation or clerical or other
assistance, or any travelling or subsistence allowance or other moneys to
be spent, or to cover expenses incurred by him, for the purposes of his employment
; and
 “net emoluments” means—
(a) in relation to service in a police force, wherein a
person has suffered loss of office or diminution of emoluments, the annual
rate of the person's emoluments as a member of that force immediately before
such loss or diminution, less the pension contributions payable by him under
the Police Pensions Regulations; and
(b) in relation to any other service or employment, the annual rate
of the emoluments of that employment at the time in question, less such part
of those emoluments as the officer was then liable to contribute under any
pension scheme associated therewith;
 “local authority” means the council of a county, county borough, metropolitan borough, London
borough, county district, rural parish or borough included in a rural district
and includes the Greater London Council, the Common Council of the City of
London, the council of the Isles of Scilly, any two or more of those authorities
acting jointly, any joint committee, combined authority or joint board and
a police authority for a county, a borough or a combined police area;

 “long-term compensation”
 means compensation payable
in accordance with the provisions of Part III
of these Regulations for loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments
;
 “material date” in relation
to any person who has suffered loss of employment or loss or diminution of
emoluments as a member of a police force means the date
on which the order or scheme to which such loss or diminution was attributable,
was made or approved by the Minister concerned or such other date or dates
as may be specified in the order or scheme in relation to him for all or any
of the purposes of these Regulations;
 “national service” means service which is relevant service within the meaning of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection
of Civil Interests) Act 1951 and includes service
immediately following such service as aforesaid, being service in any of Her
Majesty's naval, military or air forces pursuant to a voluntary engagement
entered into with the consent—
(a) in the case of a person whose last relevant
employment was as a justices clerk, of the authority by whom he was appointed,
or
(b) in the case of any other person, of the authority or person under
whom he held his last relevant employment, and, in relation to a member of a police force, service otherwise
than as such a member which is pensionable under the Police Pensions Regulations
;
 “office” includes any place, situation or employment, and the
expression 
“officer” shall be construed
accordingly;
 “pensionable pay”, “average
pensionable pay” and “preserved pensionable pay”
 have the same meanings, respectively,
as in the Police Pensions Regulations;
 “pension scheme” means a scheme for the payment of superannuation benefits to a person
as part of the terms and conditions of any employment held by him;

 “pensionable service” has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Regulations;

 “Police Pensions Regulations”
 means the Regulations from time to time
in force under the Police Pensions Act 1948;

 “reckonable service”
in relation to a person means any period of whole-time
employment and the proportionate part of any period of part-time employment
in any relevant employment and includes any period of war service or national
service undertaken on the person's ceasing to hold any such employment but
does not include employment of which account has been taken, or is required
to be taken, in calculating the amount of any superannuation benefit to which
the person has become entitled;
 “registration officer”
 means a superintendent registrar, deputy
superintendent registrar, registrar of births and deaths, deputy registrar
of births and deaths, registrar of marriages appointed under section 7
of the Registration
Service Act 1953or a person employed under
any such officer for the purposes of his functions as such officer;

 “relevant employment”
means service or employment—
(a) under the Crown, in the service of a local
authority in Great Britain or as a member of a police force, or
(b) by or under any authority or body for the purposes of
the Crown or of local government in Great Britain, or
(c) under any officer employed as mentioned in either of the
foregoing paragraphs of this definition for the purposes of the functions
of the employing authority or body, or
(d) preceding such service or employment, which may be reckonable,
in whole or in part as pensionable service for the purposes of the Police
Pensions Regulations, or
(e) in such other service as the Secretary of State may, in
the case of any named person, approve;
 “resettlement compensation”
 means compensation payable in accordance
with Part II of these
Regulations for loss of office suffered by a person to whom these Regulations
apply;
 “retirement compensation”
 means compensation payable in accordance
with the provisions of Regulation 16, 17, 18 or 19
of these Regulations;
 “tribunal” means a referee or board of referees appointed by the Minister of Labour
after consultation with the Lord Chancellor;
 “war service” means war service within the meaning of the Local Government Staffs (War Service) Act 1939,
the Teachers Superannuation (War Service)
Act 1939 the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1939
or employment for war purposes within the meaning of the Superannuation Schemes (War Service)
Act 1940 and includes any period of service
in the First World War in the armed forces of the Crown or in the forces of
the Allied or Associated Powers if such service immediately followed a period
or relevant employment and was undertaken either compulsorily or with the
permission of the employer in that employment.
(2) The following
persons shall be deemed for the purposes of these Regulations to be officers
of a local authority, whether or not they are the holders of any office under
such an authority, that is to say—
(a) registration
officers,
(b) public analysts
and deputy public analysts,
(c) medical referees
and deputy medical referees of crematoria provided by local authorities,and references to employment in the service of a local authority
shall be construed accordingly.
(3) Where under any
provision of these Regulations a capital value is to be assigned to an annual
amount, the capital value shall be calculated by the Government Actuary.
(4) Unless the context
otherwise requires, references in these Regulations to the provisions of any
enactment, rule, regulation, order or scheme shall be construed as references
to those provisions as amended or re-enacted by any subsequent enactment,
rule, regulation, order or scheme.
(5) The Interpretation Act 1889
shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to an
Act of Parliament.
39 
These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Compensation) Regulations
1965 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1965.
Frank Soskice
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office, Whitehall
22nd March 1965