Paragraph 16 F1

After regulation 57(1) (reckoning of increased benefits) insert—

“(1A)

In the case of a part-time reserve officer, subject to the following provisions of this regulation, for the purposes of calculating any award under Part 4 to or in respect of a police officer, added years purchased in pursuance of an election under regulation 53(2) shall be treated as one additional year of service as a part-time reserve officer and will be reckonable by him.

As such, the period of additional pensionable service reckonable will be calculated using the formula in regulation 11A, with the number of hours (A in this formula) being taken as the total contracted annual hours for a part-time reserve officer for each added year.

(1B)

Every reference in this regulation to—

(a)

reckoning the number of added years specified in the notice of election under regulation 53(3)(a); or

(b)

reckoning the proportion of added years specified in the notice of election under regulation 53(3)(a);

shall be read as the pensionable service reckonable for the number of added years after the application of the calculation in paragraph (1A).”.

In paragraph (6) after “regulation 53(3)(a)” insert “or, where he is a part-time reserve officer, service which would have been reckonable for the number of added years specified in the said notice of election”.