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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-part-time-service-amendment-scotland-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/495",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Part-time Service) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-part-time-service-amendment-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 4 of Part VI of Schedule J (part time service) is amended as follows.\n(2) After sub paragraph (2) insert–\n“(3) Subject to sub paragraph (5), sub paragraph (2) does not apply for the purposes of the provisions specified in sub paragraph (4), and for the purposes of those provisions the average pensionable pay of such a regular policeman is given by the formula–\nP×RQ where–\nP is the amount that the average pensionable pay would be if sub paragraph (2) applied;\nR is the period in years of his or her pensionable service; and\nQ is the period that would be the period in years of his or her pensionable service if periods of part time service were reckonable as periods of full-time service.\n(4) The provisions referred to in sub paragraph (3) are–\n(a) regulation C2(2)(b) (widow’s special award);\n(b) regulation C3(2)(a) (widow’s augmented award);\n(c) regulation C6(3) (widow’s requisite benefit and temporary pension);\n(d) regulation C7(2)(b) (widow’s award where no other award payable);\n(e) paragraph 1(1)(b) of Part I of Schedule C (widow’s ordinary pension);\n(f) paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule C (widow’s special pension);\n(g) paragraph 2(a)(ii) of Part IV of Schedule C (widow’s pension in case of post retirement marriage);\n(h) paragraph 1 of Part V of Schedule C (widow’s requisite benefit pension);\n(i) paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part II of Schedule D (child’s special allowance); and\n(j) paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Part I of Schedule E (dependent relative’s special pension).\n(5) If in a case where any of a policeman’s service by virtue of which his or her pensionable service is reckonable was part time service, an award calculated in accordance with sub paragraphs (3) and (4) would be less than it would have been if he or she had become entitled to it at an earlier date, then that greater amount shall be substituted for it.\n(6) If in a case where–\n(a) any of a former policeman’s service by virtue of which his or her pensionable service is reckonable was part time service; and\n(b) that policeman has ceased to serve by the date on which the Police Pensions (Part time Service) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2005 come into force,\nan award calculated in accordance with sub paragraphs (3) and (4) would be less than it would have been if those Regulations had not been made, then that greater amount shall be substituted for it.\n(7) If in a case where any of a policeman’s service by virtue of which his or her pensionable service is reckonable is part time service before the date on which the Police Pensions (Part time Service) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2005 come into force, an award calculated in accordance with sub paragraphs (3) and (4)(c) to (e), (g) or (h) would be less than it would have been if those Regulations had not been made, that greater amount shall be substituted for it.\n(8) For the purposes of an award calculated in accordance with sub paragraphs (3) and (4)(a), (b), (f), (i) or (j), references in sub paragraphs (3), (5) (6) and (7) to a person’s pensionable service shall in the case of a regular policeman who has made an election under regulation G4(1) include references to the pensionable service which would have been reckonable by him or her if he or she had not made such an election.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/68",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/495/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:54.135448+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}