Explanatory note

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st September 1988, amend the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 (“the principal Regulations”) with effect from 27th February 1986 (retrospection is authorised by section 1(5) of the Police Pensions Act 1976).

Regulation 2 amends regulation F1 of the principal Regulations so as to enable unpaid maternity leave to be reckonable as pensionable service provided that the person granted such leave remains in service as a regular policeman for six months after her return to duty and within that period pays to the police authority a sum equivalent to the pension contributions which would have been payable if such leave had not been granted; a consequential amendment is made to regulation A10 of the principal Regulations to enable such a payment to be included in that person’s aggregate pension contributions. Regulation F1 is also amended to exclude from reckoning as pensionable service any period of other unpaid leave.