{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-210",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-210.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/210",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "210",
  "heading": "Pension supervising authority",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of this Chapter, the table in this regulation specifies the pension supervising authority for a member of a police force in England and Wales.\n(2) The pension supervising authority may require the scheme manager to withhold benefits payable to a member under this Chapter.\nMember of a police force\nPension supervising authority\nA member of a police force maintained under section 2 of PA 1996.\nA police and crime commissioner\nA member of the metropolitan police force.\nThe Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime\nA member of the City of London police force.\nThe Common Council\nA person engaged on service as an inspector of constabulary or an assistant inspector of constabulary who is a former member of a home police force, the Police Service of Scotland or the police service in Northern Ireland.\nThe Secretary of State\nA person appointed as Chief Inspector of Constabulary who is a former member of a home police force, the Police Service of Scotland or the police service in Northern Ireland.\nThe Secretary of State\nA specified NCA officer .\nThe Secretary of State\nA person engaged on service as chief executive of the body known as the College of Policing who immediately before beginning that service was in UK police service.\nThe College of Policing\nA person holding the office of constable who is engaged as a member of staff of the Disclosure and Barring Service and who immediately before becoming so engaged was in UK police service.\nThe Disclosure and Barring Service\nA person engaged in accordance with arrangements made under paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 2 to the Police Reform Act 2002 who immediately before becoming so engaged was in UK police service.\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct\nA person in service as an officer pursuant to an appointment made in connection with the provision by the Secretary of State of assistance under the International Development Act 2002.\nThe Secretary of State ...\nA person appointed as Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency who has held the office of constable and who immediately before the appointment was in UK police service.\nThe Secretary of State\nA person engaged on temporary service in accordance with arrangements made under section 26(2) of PA 1996.\nThe Secretary of State\nA person engaged on relevant service under section 97 of PA 1996.\nThe Secretary of State",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "See section 101 of PA 1996 for the meaning of “the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime”."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 210(2) table substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 34(d) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 210(2) table omitted (30.9.2020) by virtue of The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/942), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 24(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See section 101 of PA 1996 for the meaning of “a police and crime commissioner”."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "See section 101 of PA 1996 for the meaning of “the Common Council”."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "See regulation 6 for the meaning of “specified NCA officer”."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "2002 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/regulation/210",
    "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."
}