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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1429",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Police (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 1995 amended the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976, with effect from 13th December 1995, to allow part-time police officers to be appointed.\nThese Regulations make consequential amendment to the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 (“the principal Regulations”) with retrospective effect from 13th December 1995. Retrospective effect is authorised by section 1(5) of the Police Pensions Act 1976.\nThe principal Regulations, as amended by the Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1992, at present make provisions relevant to part-time service in England and Wales and these Regulations extend the effect of those provisions to Scotland.\nRegulation 2 amends regulation G1 of the principal Regulations (pensionable and average pensionable pay) so as to extend to Scotland the provision that for a part-time policeman his “pensionable pay”, on which contributions are based, is the proportion of the full-time rate of pay appropriate to the hours which he works. (In terms of paragraph 4 of Part VI of Schedule J to the principal Regulations the “average pensionable pay” for purposes of determining the rate of pension of part-time policemen remains the full-time rate.)\nRegulation 3 amends the definition of “the appropriate factor” in Schedule A to the principal Regulations so as to make it applicable to Scotland. Under the principal Regulations, this factor is used for scaling down a policeman’s pensionable service to reflect that he only works part-time. Regulation 3 also amends the definition of “part-time service” to extend it to part-time service in Scotland.\nSince these Regulations have retrospective effect to 13th December 1995, they will apply to pensions in respect of persons who have ceased to serve or died between that date and the date when the Regulations come into force. Regulation 4 enables any person detrimentally affected by any provision of the Regulations in relation to such a pension to opt that the provision shall not apply to the pension.",
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  "version": "current",
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