Police Pensions Regulations, 1955
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1955/480 |
1955 No. 480
SUPERANNUATION
The Police Pensions Regulations, 195525thMarch 1955
25thApril 1955
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
PART I
GENERAL
1. Entitlement to award.
2. Duration and amount of awards.
PART II
AWARDS ON RETIREMENT AND DISABLEMENT
3. Policeman's ordinary pension.
4. Policeman's ill-health award.
5. Policeman's short service award.
6. Policeman's supplemental pension.
7. Award where no other award payable.
PART III
AWARDS ON DEATH
Widows
8. Widow's ordinary pension.
9. Discretionary pension and increase in widow's ordinary pension.
10. Widow's special pension.
11. Discretionary increase in widow's special pension.
12. Gratuity in lieu of pension.
13. Widow's ordinary gratuity.
14. Date of payment of award.
15. Limitation on awards to widows with reference to date of marriage.
16. Limitation on award to widow living apart from husband.
17. Termination of widow's pension on remarriage.
Children
18. Child's ordinary allowance.
19. Child's special allowance.
20. Variation in child's allowance.
21. Gratuity in lieu of allowance.
22. Limitation on right to child's allowance.
23. Duration of child's allowance.
24. Posthumous children.
Dependants and Estate
25. Awards to dependent relatives or estate.
Double Entitlement
26. Prevention of duplication.
PART IV
PENSIONABLE SERVICE
27. Reckoning of pensionable service.
28. Additions to pensionable service.
29. Additions to pensionable service on payment.
30. Additions to pensionable service at discretion of police authority.
31. Added years in case of displaced chief constable.
32. Added years in case of displaced reversionary member of home police force.
33. Reckoning of service in Scotland.
PART V
PENSIONABLE PAY AND CONTRIBUTIONS
34. Pensionable pay.
35. Pension contributions.
PART VI
CANCELLATION, REVISION, REDUCTION AND WITHDRAWAL OF AWARDS
36. Cancellation of ill-health and supplemental pensions.
37. Reassessment of supplemental pension.
38. Reduction of pension in case of default.
39. Withdrawal of pension during re-employment.
40. Discharge of liability of police authority on withdrawal of pension.
PART VII
DETERMINATION OF QUESTIONS
41. Reference of medical questions.
42. Appeal to medical referee.
43. Further reference to medical referee.
44. Refusal to be medically examined.
45. Appeal by member of overseas corps.
PART VIII
PAYMENT OF AWARDS
46. Authorities responsible for payment of awards.
47. Funds out of which and into which payments are to be made.
48. Payment of awards.
49. Payment of awards other than to person entitled.
50. Contributions between police authorities in case of transfer.
PART IX
COMPULSORY RETIREMENT
51. Compulsory retirement on account of age.
52. Compulsory retirement on grounds of efficiency of the force.
53. Compulsory retirement on grounds of disablement.
54. Effect of requirement to retire.
PART X
SERVICEMEN
55. Awards to servicemen.
56. Awards on death of servicemen.
57. Application of Regulation 25.
58. Servicemen who resume service as regular policemen.
59. Servicemen who do not resume service in their former force.
60. Pensionable service.
61. Pension contributions.
PART XI
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS IN SPECIAL CASES
62. Chief constables of areas that are amalgamated.
63. Chief constables who joined or were transferred to a county police force.
64. Commissioner and assistant commissioners of police of the metropolis.
65. Certain persons serving on 1st July, 1949.
66. Certain ex-reversionary members of home police forces.
67. Members of overseas corps with previous service outside Great Britain.
PART XII
MISCELLANEOUS
68. Application of Pensions (Increase) Acts, 1944 and 1947.
69. Application of Pensions (Increase) Act, 1952.
70. Allocation of part of pension.
71. Saving of sections 10 and 22 (2) of Police Pensions Act, 1921.
72. Lincolnshire.
73. Combined police forces.
PART XIII
INTERPRETATION
74. Meanings assigned to certain expressions.
75. Ranks in an overseas corps.
76. Transfers.
77. Retirement.
78. Supplemental pension.
79. Aggregate pension contributions.
80. Injury received in the execution of duty.
81. Disablement.
82. Disablement or death the result of an injury.
83. Injury received in the armed forces.
84. Relevant service in the armed forces.
85. Average pensionable pay and pensionable service of persons retiring before the appointed day.
86. Periods of pensionable service under the Police Pensions Regulations and approved service.
87. References.
88. Application of the Interpretation Act.
PART XIV
REVOCATIONS AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT
89. Partial revocations.
90. Citation, commencement and extent.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
Part I. Policeman's ordinary pension.
Part II. Policeman's ill-health or short service award.
Part III. Reductions in ordinary, ill-health or short service pensions.
Part IV. Standard amount for Regulation 6.
SECOND SCHEDULE
Part I. Widow's ordinary pension.
Part II. Discretionary pension and increase in widow's ordinary or special pension.
Part III. Widow's special pension.
Part IV. Widow's special pension where husband's death results from an attack.
Part V. Widow's gratuity in lieu of pension.
Part VI. Widow's ordinary gratuity.
Part VII. Computation of widow's benefit and retirement pensions.
THIRD SCHEDULE
Part I. Child's ordinary allowance.
Part II. Child's special allowance.
Part III. Discretionary increase in child's allowance.
Part IV. Reduction in child's allowance.
Part V. Child's gratuity.
FOURTH SCHEDULE.—Medical appeals.
FIFTH SCHEDULE.—Limits in respect of awards to or in respect of servicemen.
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections one, three and five of the Police Pensions Act, 1948(a), I hereby, with the consent of the Treasury and after consultation with the Police Council, make the following Regulations:—
PART I
GENERAL
Entitlement to award
1.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, every man or woman who is a regular policeman, that is to say, a member of a home police force who is not an auxiliary policeman and a member of an overseas corps who is a reversionary member of a home police force, shall, on retiring from the force of which he is a member, be entitled to an award under these Regulations.
(2) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, every man or woman who is permanently disabled as the result of any injury or disease whether of body or mind (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as " an injury ") received without his own default in the execution of his duty as a member of a police force shall be entitled to an award under these Regulations on
retiring from the police force or, where he has retired before becoming disabled, on the date when he becomes so disabled which, if it cannot be ascertained, shall be taken to be the date when the claim that he is disabled is first made known to the police authority.
(3) The widow of a man who has been a member of a police force shall, in the circumstances specified in these Regulations, be entitled to an award.
(4) The child, step-child, illegitimate child and adopted child (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as the " child ") of a man or woman who has been a member of a police force shall be entitled on the death of that man or woman to an award in the circumstances specified in these Regulations:
Provided that this paragraph shall only apply to a step-child, illegitimate child or adopted child who was dependent to a substantial extent on the said man or woman at the time of the death.
Duration and amount of awards
2.—(1) A pension shall be for life unless it is forfeited under the Act or varied, suspended or terminated under these Regulations.
(2) The amount of a pension payable to a person who has been a member of a police force shall, in the manner hereafter provided, be calculated with reference to his average pensionable pay and shall be payable in respect of each year after his retirement.
(3) A pension to a widow or an allowance to a child shall be of such amount as is hereafter provided and shall be payable in respect of each week.
PART II
AWARDS ON RETIREMENT AND DISABLEMENT
Policeman's ordinary pension
3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, where a regular policeman who is entitled to reckon twenty-five years' pensionable service retires from a police force, the award shall be an ordinary pension.
(2) The amount of an ordinary pension shall be determined in accordance with Parts I and III of the First Schedule to these Regulations.
(3) This Regulation shall not apply where—
(a) a chief officer of police, assistant commissioner of police of the metropolis, assistant commissioner of police for the City of London, assistant chief constable, or a commander or deputy commander in the metropolitan police retires before he has attained the age of sixty, or
(b) a regular policeman has not given to the police authority one month's written notice or such shorter notice as the police authority may accept of his intention to retire,
unless—
(i) the police authority otherwise decide, or
(ii) he is required to retire under the provisions of Regulation 51 or 52, or
(iii) he is required to retire as an alternative to dismissal.
(4) (a) Paragraph (1) shall not apply where a member of an overseas corps retires before the completion of his period of overseas service.
(b) Paragraph (3) shall not apply in relation to any member of an overseas corps.
Policeman's ill-health award
4.—(1) Where a regular policeman retires from a police force on the ground that he is permanently disabled, the award shall be an ill-health award which—
(a) if at the time when he so retires either—
(i) he is entitled to reckon ten years' pensionable service, or
(ii) his disablement is the result of an injury received in the execution of his duty,
shall be a pension (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as an " ill-health pension "), and
(b) in other cases, shall be a gratuity.
(2) The amount of the said pension or gratuity shall be...
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