Regulation 5 Police, special constabulary and police cadet supplemental pensions

This Regulation shall apply where a supplemental pension is payable in accordance with—

whether or not the pension is reduced in amount or is not payable on account of the payment of some additional benefit within the meaning of Regulation 4.

Section 3(2) of the principal Act shall have effect in relation to such a supplemental pension as if the pensioner had retired on account of physical or mental infirmity.

Where, in accordance with the Regulations mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (c), the pensioner is entitled to some other pension, notwithstanding anything in those Regulations, the provisions of the principal Act and of Regulation 4 shall have effect (where paragraph (4) applies, subject to the provisions thereof) as if the supplemental pension and the other pension constituted separate awards.

Where, in accordance with the Regulations mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), the pensioner is entitled to some other pension, for the purpose of ascertaining the 1971 rates of the supplemental and of the other pension under section 6 of the principal Act, the 1971 rate of the other pension shall be ascertained without regard to the supplemental pension but the difference between that rate and the 1971 rate of the combined pensions (where Regulation 4 applies to the supplemental pension, having regard to paragraph (2) thereof) shall be treated as the 1971 rate of the supplemental pension.