# The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015, Paragraph 3: Pensionable service under a police scheme

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(1) For the purpose of this Schedule, a transition member (T) is in pensionable service under a police scheme while T is on unpaid leave from the employment to which that service relates.
(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1)—
“a police scheme” means—
(a) the 1987 scheme;
(b) the 1988 NI Police pension scheme;
(c) the 2006 scheme;
(d) the existing England and Wales police pension scheme;
(e) the 2009 NI police pension scheme;
(f) the 2015 England and Wales police pension scheme; or
(g) the 2015 NI police pension scheme; and
“unpaid leave”, in relation to employment to which pensionable service under a police scheme relates, means—
(a) a career break; or
(b) any other period of unpaid leave—
(i) that does not exceed 5 years; and
(ii) during which the employment relationship continues .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/142/schedule/4/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-3
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