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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/487",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-2013",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulations 2 and 3 of these Regulations amend the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 and the Police Pensions Regulations 2006 in order to increase the rates of contribution payable by members of the police pension schemes governed by those Regulations.\nRegulation 4 of these Regulations corrects an error in regulation B5A of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987, which was inserted by the Police Pensions (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2012 with effect from 1st January 2013.\nRegulation B5A was inserted in order to implement (in part) recommendation 58 of the Independent Review of Police Officer and Staff Remuneration and Conditions: Part 1 Report in relation to voluntary redundancy. The intention behind regulation B5A was to allow a police officer who leaves the police force under a voluntary redundancy scheme when aged 55 or more and eligible for a deferred pension to elect to receive his or her pension immediately rather than at the age of 60, subject to an actuarial reduction. Regulation B5A also allows an officer in this position to use the lump sum paid on voluntary redundancy to buy out the actuarial reduction to the pension.\nHowever, regulation B5A in fact extended the entitlement to early payment of an actuarially reduced pension to all scheme members eligible for a deferred pension. These Regulations implement the original policy intention, with effect from 1st January 2013. An election for early receipt of an actuarially reduced pension made in the period before these Regulations came into force, and which could not have been made under regulation B5A as amended, will have no effect unless the member confirms it in accordance with regulation 5 of these Regulations.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Cm. 8024."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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