{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-firefighters-pensions-amendment-regulations-2018/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-firefighters-pensions-amendment-regulations-2018/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/997",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Firefighters’ Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-firefighters-pensions-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Glossary of expressions",
  "text": "In Schedule 1 (glossary of expressions)—\n(a) after the definition of “the 1987 regulations” insert—\n““the 1987 scheme” means the scheme set out in the 1987 Regulations;\n“1987 transition member” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the 2015 Regulations;”;\n(b) after the definition of “the 2006 Regulations” insert—\n““the 2006 scheme” means the scheme set out in the 2006 Regulations;\n“2006 transition member” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the 2015 Regulations;\n“the 2015 Regulations” means the Police Pensions Regulations 2015;\n“the 2015 scheme” means the scheme set out in the 2015 Regulations;”;\n(c) in the definition of “aggregate pension contributions” after “regulation 4(4)” insert “or 4A(8), as the case may be”;\n(d) in the definition of “average pensionable pay” after “regulation 4(2)” insert “or 4A(2)(b) as the case may be”;\n(e) in the definition of “disablement” after “regulation 7” insert “or 7A, as the case may be”;\n(f) in the definition of “pensionable pay” after “regulation 4(1)” insert “or regulation 4A(2)(a) as the case may be”;\n(g) after the definition of “the Pensions (Increase) Acts” insert—\n““period of eligible service under the 2015 scheme” in relation to a member of that scheme, means a period in which the member is in eligible service as defined in regulation 21 of the 2015 Regulations other than a period in which the member is on—\n(a) a career break as defined in regulation 2 of those Regulations; or\n(b) any other period of unpaid leave mentioned in regulation 21(3)(b) of those Regulations;\n“period of pensionable service under the 2015 scheme”, in relation to a member of that scheme, means the total of—\n(a) any period of pensionable service as defined in section 37 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013;\n(b) any period of assumed pay as defined in regulation 34(2) of the 2015 Regulations; and\n(c) any period of eligible service under the 2015 scheme in respect of which the member had opted out of that scheme;”;\n(h) after the definition of “step child” insert—\n““totally disabled” has the meaning given in regulation 7(6);\n“transition member with continuity of service” means—\n(a) a 1987 transition member with continuity of service within the meaning of paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the 2015 Regulations; or\n(b) a 2006 transition member with continuity of service within the meaning of paragraph 5 of that Schedule.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “the 2006 Regulations” was inserted by S.I. 2006/3415."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2013 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/997/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:06.093277+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}