POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND AND POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND RESERVE (INJURY BENEFIT) REGULATIONS 2006

• (b) for a 1988 transition member with continuity of service, the total of—

• (i) the members continuous period of pensionable service under the 2015 scheme, and

• (ii) the member’s pensionable service under the 1988 scheme before the members transition date;

• (c) for a 2006 transition member with continuity of service, the total of—

• (i) the members continuous period of pensionable service under the 2015 scheme, and

• (ii) the members pensionable service under the 2006 scheme before the members transition date;

“continuous period of pensionable service under the 2015 scheme” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 2 of the 2015 Regulations;

“earnings year” means—

• (a) the 12 months ending with the member’s last day of pensionable service under the 2015 scheme; or

• (b) the earnings year mentioned in regulations 158(1)(b) (meaning of “final pay”) of the 2015 Regulations;

“final pay” has the meaning given in regulation 158 of the 2015 Regulations;

“pensionable earnings” has the meaning given in regulation 30 (pensionable earnings) of the 2015 Regulations.

Weekly rate of pensions and allowances

Injury received in the execution of duty

Disablement

Permeant disablement in relation to a 2015 scheme member

6A

• (1) This regulation applies in relation to a police officer who is a member of the 2015 scheme at the time when the question as to whether the person is permanently disabled arises under these Regulations for decision.

• (2) The person is disabled for the purpose of these Regulations if the person is medically unfit within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part 6 (retirement pensions payable on grounds of permanent medical unfitness: general) of the 2015 Regulations.;

• (3) The person is permanently disabled for the purpose of these Regulations if at the time the decision is made, the disability is likely to be permeant.

• (4) In the case of a person who is totally disabled for the purpose of these Regulations, paragraph (3) has effect, for the purpose of regulations 11 and 20 of these Regulations, as if the reference to the person’s disability being likely to be permanent were a reference to the total disablement of that person being likely to be permanent.

• (5) Where it is necessary to determine the degree of a person’s disablement, it must be determined by reference to the degree to which the person’s earning capacity has been affected as a result of an injury received without the person’s own default in the execution of duty as a police officer.

• (6) For the purpose of paragraph (5).a person is deemed to be totally disabled if, as a result of an injury received without the person’s own default in the execution of duty as a police officer, the person is receiving treatment as an in-patient at a hospital.

• (7) Where a person has retired before becoming disabled and the date on which the person becomes disabled cannot be ascertained, it is taken to be the date on which the claim that the person is disabled is first made known to the Board.

Disablement, death or treatment in hospital the result of an injury

Transitional provisions

Revocations and amendments

4A

In the case of a police officer who is eligible to be a transition member of the 2015 scheme with continuity of service, paragraphs 1 and 3 apply to that officer as if all that officer’s service had been in the 1988 scheme, or he 2006 scheme, as the case may be.

6A

In this Schedule, references to service in the 2015 scheme as being “reckonable” are construed as references to service which would be pensionable service within the meaning of section 34 of the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.

Permanent disablement in relation to a 2015 scheme member