Regulation 5 Transfers

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg 5 am (spec retrosp effect) (6.4.2006) by Police Pensions 2008 regs 32, 34
reg 5 rev in pt by Police Pensions 2010 reg 2, sch 3
reg 5 am by Police Pensions 2009 reg 2, sch 1
reg. 5(a)(ii) words substituted by Police Pensions 2011 reg. 6(3)(a)
reg. 5(d)(ii) words substituted by Police Pensions 2011 reg. 6(3)(b)
reg. 5(c) substituted by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) 2013 Sch. para. 61(2)
reg. 5(d)(e) omitted by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) 2013 Sch. para. 61(3)

A reference to a regular police officer transferring from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to a regular police officer—

(a)

leaving a home police force for the purpose of joining another home police force as a regular police officer and joining that other force in that capacity, where—

(i)

not being the chief officer of police of, or a constable on probation in, the force first mentioned in this sub-paragraph, he leaves that force after giving a month’s notice in writing of his intention to do so to the police authority of that force, or such shorter period of notice as may have been accepted by that authority, or

(ii)

being the chief officer of police of, or a constable on probation in, that force, he leaves that force with the written consent of the chief officer of police or, in the case of the chief officer of police, of the police authority of that force; or

(b)

at the end of a period of relevant service joining another home police force as a regular police officer subject, in the case of a person who was, at the time he left the home police force in which he was serving immediately before engaging on that period of relevant service, the chief officer of that force, to his doing so with the written consent of the police authority of that force.