{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3415",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The pensionable service reckonable by an officer—\n(a) to whom paragraph 1 applies and who has made an election in accordance with paragraphs 6 and 7,\n(b) to whom paragraph 2 applies,\n(c) to whom paragraph 3 applies and who has made an election in accordance with paragraphs 4 and 5, or\n(d) such as is mentioned in regulation 6(3), who cancels his election in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 6(4) but does not make a transfer election under regulation 6(8),\nshall be determined in accordance with regulations 10 to 16, except that regulation 16 (reckoning of service for purposes of awards) shall have effect as if—\n(e) there were inserted in paragraph (1) after the words “35 years” the words—\n“less the total pensionable service he was entitled to reckon under the 1987 Regulations, calculated in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4), at the time—\n(a) of his retirement with an entitlement to—\n(i) an ordinary pension under regulation B1; or, as the case may be,\n(ii) a short service award under regulation B2;\n(iii) a deferred pension under regulation B5, or\n(iv) an award by way of repayment of aggregate pension contributions under regulation B6,\nof the 1987 Regulations, or\n(b) in a case falling within paragraph 9(d) of Schedule 2, when he cancelled his election in the circumstances mentioned in regulation 6(4)”; and\n(f) there were added at the end the following paragraphs—\n“(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the total pensionable service which a regular police officer was entitled to reckon at the time mentioned in paragraph (1)(a)(i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) or (b), as the case may be, shall be calculated by the police authority as the sum of—\n(a) the pensionable service he was entitled to reckon under Part F of the 1987 Regulations at that time multiplied by the appropriate conversion factor—\n(i) where he has not yet attained the age of 55 years, applicable to his age next birthday at the notional commencement of pension contributions under the 1987 Regulations, or\n(ii) where he has attained the age of 55 years, applicable to the number of years’ qualifying service as a regular police officer he had completed as at the time of his retirement mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d), as the case may be,\ngiven in the following table—\nTABLE OF CONVERSION FACTORS\nIf under age 55\nAge next birthday at notional commencement of pension contributions under 1987 Regulations\nIf aged 55 or above\nNumber of years’ qualifying service completed at date of retirement mentioned in paragraph (1)\nPeriods with full spouse benefit\nFor female officers, periods with no spouse benefit\n25 and below\n30\n7/6ths\n113%\n26\n29\n115%\n111%\n27\n28\n113%\n109%\n28\n27\n111%\n107%\n29\n26\n108%\n104%\n30\n25\n105%\n104%\n31\n24\n102%\n98%\n32\n23\n99%\n95%\n33\n22\n96%\n92%\n34\n21\n92%\n88%\n35 and above\n20 or fewer\n88%\n84%\nand\n(b) in the case of a regular police officer such as is mentioned in paragraph 9(c) of Schedule 2 who had elected to purchase increased benefits in accordance with the Police Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1987, such additional sixtieths as he was entitled to reckon under regulation 8(2) of the Police Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1987 immediately before his retirement, multiplied by the conversion factor of 88%.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3)—\n(a) “age next birthday at the notional commencement of pension contributions under the 1987 Regulations”, in relation to a regular police officer, means the age he would attain on the birthday following the date on which he would have attained an exact age determined by subtracting the length of his qualifying service under the 1987 Regulations from his exact age on the date when he commenced paying contributions under these Regulations; and\n(b) “qualifying service” and “qualifying service under the 1987 Regulations” mean the period in years he was entitled to reckon as pensionable service under the 1987 Regulations, except that where some or all of the service he was so entitled to reckon was part-time service it means the period in years he would have been entitled to reckon as pensionable service if in any period of part-time service he had served full-time.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2215; relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1990/3202, 2004/2354 and 2005/1439."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/2060",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3057",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2012"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3415/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
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  },
  "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."
}