Regulation 7 Pension contributions payable by regular police officers

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

reg. 7(1)(c) words substituted by Police Pensions 2013 reg. 3(4)(b)
reg. 7 substituted by Police Pensions 2012 reg. 3(2)
reg. 7(1)(a)(i) words substituted by Police Pensions 2014 reg. 3(2)(a)
reg. 7(1)(a)(ii) words substituted by Police Pensions 2014 reg. 3(2)(b)
reg. 7(1)(c) words substituted by Police Pensions 2013 reg. 3(4)(a)
reg. 7(1)(b) words substituted by Police Pensions 2013 reg. 3(3)(b)
reg. 7(1)(a) words substituted by Police Pensions 2013 reg. 3(2)(a)
reg. 7(1)(a) words substituted by Police Pensions 2013 reg. 3(2)(b)
reg. 7(1)(b) words substituted by Police Pensions 2013 reg. 3(3)(a)
reg. 7(1)(b)(i) words substituted by Police Pensions 2014 reg. 3(3)(a)
reg. 7(1)(b)(ii) words substituted by Police Pensions 2014 reg. 3(3)(b)
reg. 7(1)(c)(i) words substituted by Police Pensions 2014 reg. 3(4)(a)
reg. 7(1)(c)(ii) words substituted by Police Pensions 2014 reg. 3(4)(b)

(1)

Subject to paragraph (3), a regular police officer shall pay to the police authority pension contributions at the rate of—

(a)

in a case where he is ineligible under regulation 8 for a pension award payable on the ground of permanent disablement, 6 per cent of his pensionable pay; and

(b)

in any other case, 9.5 per cent of his pensionable pay.

(2)

The pension contributions payable under paragraph (1) upon each instalment of pay shall fall due at the same time as the instalment and may, without prejudice to any other method of payment that may be agreed by the police authority in exceptional circumstances, be discharged by way of a deduction of the appropriate amount made by the police authority from the instalment.

(3)

Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of a regular police officer who has made an election under regulation 9 which is, for the time being, in effect.