LegalizeThe Police Pension (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2007
Made: 15th November 2007
Laid before Parliament: 5th December 2007
Coming into operation: 31st December 2007
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PART 1 — GENERAL
Citation and commencement
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Meaning of certain expressions and references — general provision
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Disablement
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PART 2 — ELIGIBILITY FOR PENSION AWARDS, PENSIONABLE SERVICE AND RETIREMENT
Eligibility for pension awards
Application of Regulations
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Pension contributions payable by police officers
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Eligibility for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement
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Election not to pay pension contributions
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Pensionable service
Reckoning of pensionable service
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Previous service reckonable without payment
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Previous service reckonable on payment
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Reckoning of part-time service
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Service reckonable by reason of transfer value
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Reckoning of service for purposes of awards
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Retirement
Retirement
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Voluntary retirement
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Compulsory retirement on account of age
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Compulsory retirement on grounds of efficiency of the service
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Compulsory retirement on the ground of disablement
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Effective date of retirement
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PART 3 — PENSIONABLE PAY AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Pensionable pay
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Final pensionable pay
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Average pensionable pay
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Aggregate pension contributions for purposes of repayment
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PART 4 — PENSION AWARDS
Personal pensions
Police officer’s ordinary pension
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Calculation of ordinary pension
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Police officer’s ill-health pension
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Calculation of standard ill-health pension
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Calculation of enhanced top-up ill-health pension
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Police officer’s deferred pension
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Early payment of deferred pension subject to actuarial reduction
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Repayment of aggregate pension contributions
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Deduction of tax from awards under regulation 7(4) or 31
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Pension debit members — personal awards
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Exchange of lump-sum for additional periodical payments
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Commutation of small pension for lump-sum
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Survivors' pensions
Survivors' pensions — general provision
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Survivors
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Calculation of adult survivors' pensions
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Calculation of child survivors' pensions
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Guaranteed minimum pension
Guaranteed minimum pension for the purposes of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993
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Awards on death — additional provisions
Death gratuities — dependants
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Death gratuity — estate
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Lump-sum death grant
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Nomination for lump-sum death grant
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Pension debit members — awards on death
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Prevention of duplication
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Increase of awards by reference to the Pensions (Increase) Acts
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Revision and withdrawal or forfeiture of awards
Review and cancellation of pensions payable on the ground of permanent disablement
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Withdrawal of pension during service as a police officer
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Reduction of pension in case of default
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Withdrawal of early payment of deferred pension
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Forfeiture of pension
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PART 5 — PURCHASE OF INCREASED BENEFITS
Election to purchase increased benefits
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Acceptance and effect of elections
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Lump-sum payments
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Payment by periodical contributions
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Reckoning of increased benefits
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PART 6 — PENSION SHARING: PENSION CREDIT MEMBERS
Pension credit member’s entitlement to pension
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Commutation of the pension credit benefit on the grounds of serious ill-health
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Death grants where pension credit member dies before pension credit benefits payable
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Application of general regulations
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PART 7 — MEDICAL QUESTIONS AND APPEALS
Eligibility for awards — general
Eligibility for awards — general
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Appeals
Appeals
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Limitations on appeals
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Decisions on eligibility for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement
Reference to selected medical practitioner — eligibility for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement
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Appeals against decisions on eligibility for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement
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Medical questions — permanent disablement
Reference of medical questions — permanent disablement
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Appeal to independent medical referee (IMR)
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Further reference to medical authority
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Procedure and costs on appeals under regulation 68
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Refusal to be medically examined
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PART 8 — TRANSFER VALUES, PAYMENT, ETC
Interpretation
Interpretation — transfers
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Certificates of pensionable service on transfer between forces or rejoining the police service
Certificates of pensionable service
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Transfer values payable on leaving the police service or ceasing to make pension contributions
Transfer values payable on leaving the police service or ceasing to make pension contributions
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Prohibition on accepting or paying transfer values for pension credit rights
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Mis-sold pensions
Mis-sold pensions
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Payment of awards
Board responsibility for payment of awards
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Payment and duration of awards
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Payment of awards otherwise than to beneficiary and application of payments
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Payment on behalf of officers of lifetime allowance charge
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Reduction of benefits where lifetime allowance charge payable
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PART 9 — SPECIAL CASES
Servicemen
Interpretation
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Awards to servicemen
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Survivors' awards on death of servicemen
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Prevention of duplication
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Application of regulations 41, 42 and 43
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Servicemen who do not resume service in the police service
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Pensionable service and pension contributions
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Former members of police force in Great Britain
Former members of a police force in Great Britain
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Members of Police Service Northern Ireland transferring to a Police Service in Great Britain
Members of Police Service Northern Ireland transferring to a Police Service in Great Britain
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Members of the Police Service Northern Ireland Reserve (Full-time)
Members of the Police Service Northern Ireland Reserve (Full-time)
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Amendment of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006
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SCHEDULE 1 — GLOSSARY OF EXPRESSIONS
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SCHEDULE 2 — APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS TO OFFICERS TO WHOM REGULATION 4(2) AND (3) APPLIES
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SCHEDULE 3 — TRANSFER ELECTIONS UNDER REGULATION 4(8)
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SCHEDULE 4 — PROGRESSIVE MEDICAL CONDITIONS
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SCHEDULE 5 — AMENDMENT OF THE POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND AND POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND RESERVE (INJURY BENEFIT) REGULATIONS 2006
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Signed
Shaun Woodward — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — Date 12th November 2007
We consent to the making of these regulations
Dave Watts — Steve McCabe — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — Date 15th November 2007
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1998 c. 32. Both sections have been modified by section 49 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (“2000 Act”) (c. 32)
[^f00002]: This subsection was inserted by paragraph 23(6) of Schedule 6 to the 2000 Act
[^f00003]: c. 16. Modified by Section 49 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Order Act 2000 (“2000 Act”)
[^f00004]: Article 14 and 15 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (1972/1073 (N.I. 10)) allows regulations relating to pensions under section 25 or 26 of the 1998 Act to have retrospective effect. Article 15 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the 1998 Act.
[^f00005]: 1992 c. 7.
[^f00006]: S.R. 2005 No. 547
[^f00007]: Pensions Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 c. 49
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