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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1997.
(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 30th June 1997 but shall have effect from 13th December 1995.
(3) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Police Pensions Regulations 1987.
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Regulation G1(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting after the words “those Regulations)” the words–“or so much of his pay at that rate as is attributable to his determined hours (within the meaning of regulation 1(6) of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976 as applied by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1B to those Regulations)”.
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Schedule A to the principal Regulations is amended–
(a) by inserting at the end of the definition of “the appropriate factor”–“or the factor which was the appropriate factor within the meaning of regulation 1(6) or (7) of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976 as it applied by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1B to those Regulations”;and
(b) by inserting at the end of the definition of “part-time service”–“or pursuant to an appointment under regulation 2A of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976”.
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(1) This regulation applies in relation to any pension which is or may become payable under the principal Regulations to or in respect of a person who, having served as a member of a police force, has ceased so to serve or died before these Regulations come into force.
(2) Where, in a case to which this regulation applies, any provision of these Regulations would operate in relation to any person so as to place that person in a worse position than he would have been in if the provision had not applied in relation to any pension which is being paid or may become payable to him, that person may elect that the provision shall not so apply by giving notice in accordance with paragraph (3).
(3) A notice given pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be in writing and shall be delivered to the police authority responsible for payment of the pension within 6 months after the coming into force of these Regulations.
Brian Wilson
Minister of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th May 1997We consent
Graham Allen
Bob Ainsworth
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
2nd June 1997