Regulation 7 Amendments to Regulations

The Police (Injury Benefits) Regulations 2006^f1 are further amended as follows.

In regulation 3 (meaning of certain expressions in relation to persons who are not members of a home police force)—

After regulation 8 (disablement, death or treatment in hospital the result of an injury) insert—

“Chief officers of home police forces in England and Wales (other than the City of London police force)

8A.

(1)

This regulation applies to any provision of these Regulations which confers a power on a police pension authority which is to be exercised in the authority’s discretion, or which requires the authority to make a determination, form an opinion or otherwise make a decision.

(2)

In its application to a regular policeman who is—

(a)

chief constable of a police force maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996; or

(b)

the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis,

a provision to which this regulation applies shall have effect as if it conferred the power in question on the pension supervising authority rather than the police pension authority, and any reference to the police pension authority shall be construed accordingly.”;

In regulation 34 (appeal by a member of a home police force), for “police authority” (in the third place) substitute “pension supervising authority”.

In regulation 35 (appeal by inspector of constabulary or police officer engaged on relevant service and any other overseas policeman), in paragraph (2), for “police authority” (in the third place) substitute “pension supervising authority”.

In regulation 40 (forfeiture)—

In regulation 42(1) at the end insert “and for the purposes of this paragraph “police fund” has the same meaning as in those Regulations”.