Explanatory note

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st February 1988, provide that regular policemen, where eligible in accordance with regulation 2, may elect to purchase increased benefits under the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 (“the principal Regulations”) up to the limit allowed by those Regulations.

Part I of the Regulations provides for citation, commencement and interpretation.

Part II allows an eligible policeman to elect within specified time limits to make payment, either by lump sum (regulation 4) or, subject to certain conditions, by periodical contributions (regulation 5), of amounts, calculated in accordance with Part I of the Schedule to the Regulations, for the purpose of reckoning additional sixtieths of average pensionable pay in calculating benefits payable to or in respect of him under the principal Regulations; regulation 8 and Part II of the Schedule govern the reckoning of additional benefits which a policeman has elected to purchase.

Part III makes a consequential amendment of the principal Regulations and Part IV provides that references in them to various personal and dependants' benefits are to be construed, where appropriate, as including increases in those benefits under or by virtue of these Regulations.