# The Police Pensions Regulations 2015, Regulation 167A: Relevant pay


(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—
(a) if one or both of paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) applies to that payment, M’s joining pay;
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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—
(a) the day that M most recently became an active member; and
(b) the day that M most recently returned from a long period of leave.
(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.
(6) For the purposes of paragraph (4), the “annual rate of pay to which M was entitled” is—
(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;
(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.
(7) In this regulation—
“active member” means a person who—
(a)is in pensionable service under this scheme; or
(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;
“long period of leave” means any period lasting for a year or more which is—
(a)a period of unpaid leave during which the employment relationship continues;
(b)a period of permanent service; or
(c)a combination of (a) and (b);
“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;
“relevant period”, in relation to a payment of pensionable earnings, means the period—
(a)beginning immediately before midnight at the end of 1st April during the previous scheme year in relation to that payment; and
(b)ending at the end of the pay period to which that payment relates.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/regulation/167A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-167A
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