{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-167A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-167A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/167A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "167A",
  "heading": "Relevant pay",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of determining the rate of member contributions under this Part, the relevant pay of a member (“M”), for a payment of M’s pensionable earnings, is—\n(a) if one or both of paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) applies to that payment, M’s joining pay;\n(b) otherwise, the sum of M’s pensionable earnings for each pay period that ended in the previous scheme year in relation to that payment.\n(2) This paragraph applies to a payment of M’s pensionable earnings if M is not, continuously, an active member during the relevant period for that payment.\n(3) This paragraph applies to a payment of M’s pensionable earnings if M returned from a long period of leave during the relevant period for that payment.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), M’s “joining pay” is the annual rate of pay to which M was entitled on the later of—\n(a) the day that M most recently became an active member; and\n(b) the day that M most recently returned from a long period of leave.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), any statutory pay paid to or for M is treated as included within M’s pensionable earnings.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (4), the “annual rate of pay to which M was entitled” is—\n(a) where M is a person in service as a member of a home police force, the annual rate of pay to which M was entitled as such a member, no account being taken of any retrospective increase in that rate of pay;\n(b) where M is a person in service as a member of a police force in England and Wales other than a home police force, the annual rate of pay to which M was entitled under M’s terms and conditions of employment, no account being taken of any retrospective increase in that rate of pay.\n(7) In this regulation—\n“active member” means a person who—\n(a)is in pensionable service under this scheme; or\n(b)for the purpose of determining entitlement to payment of benefits to or in respect of that person, is taken to be an active member of this scheme;\n“long period of leave” means any period lasting for a year or more which is—\n(a)a period of unpaid leave during which the employment relationship continues;\n(b)a period of permanent service; or\n(c)a combination of (a) and (b);\n“previous scheme year”, in relation to a payment of pensionable earnings, means the scheme year before the scheme year during which falls the end of the pay period to which that payment relates;\n“relevant period”, in relation to a payment of pensionable earnings, means the period—\n(a)beginning immediately before midnight at the end of 1st April during the previous scheme year in relation to that payment; and\n(b)ending at the end of the pay period to which that payment relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 167A inserted (1.4.2026) by The Police Pensions (Member Contributions) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (England and Wales) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/267), regs. 1(1), 5 (with reg. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/regulation/167A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:30.636565+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."
}