The Increase of Pensions (Police and Fire Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1973

Made: 9th March 1973

Laid before Parliament: 27th March 1973

Coming into Operation: 1st April 1973

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 5(3) and (4) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971, I hereby, with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service, make the following Regulations:—

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These Regulations may be cited as the Increase of Pensions (Police and Fire Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1973.

2

These Regulations shall come into operation on 1st April 1973 and shall have effect as from 1st April 1972.

3

At the end of paragraph (1) of Regulation 4 of the Increase of Pensions (Police and Fire Services) Regulations 1971[^f00001] (pensions reduced on account of additional benefit) there shall be added the words “being, in the case of a pension payable otherwise than in accordance with the Fireman's Pension Scheme, a pension payable to a person who retired, or ceased to hold office, before 1st April 1972”.

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• (1) In paragraph (1) of Regulation 5 of the said Regulations of 1971 (police, special constabulary and police cadet supplemental pensions) after the words “a supplemental pension” there shall be inserted the words “and, in the case of paragraph (2), where an injury pension”.

• (2) In paragraph (2) of the said Regulation 5 after the word “supplemental” there shall be inserted the world “or injury”.

Signed

Robert Carr — One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State — 6th March 1973

Consent of the Minister for the Civil Service given under this Official Seal on 9th March 1973.

K. H. McNeill — Authorised by the Minister for the Civil Service

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Increase of Pensions (Police and Fire Services) Regulations 1971 and have the effect as from 1st April 1972, the date from which certain changes take effect in the provisions governing police, special constabulary and police cadet pensions (retrospective effect is authorised by section 5(4) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971).

Pensions payable to policemen, special constables and police cadets who have retired or ceased to hold office on or after 1st April 1972 are excluded from the operation of Regulation 4 of the Regulations of 1971 (Regulation 3).

Injury pensions payable to such persons (which, by virtue of the changes referred to above, replace supplemental pensions) are brought within the operation of Regulation 5 of the Regulations of 1971 so far as it is applicable (Regulation 4).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: (1971 II. p. 3813).