Regulation 211 Forfeiture: offences committed by members

If a member is convicted of a relevant offence, the pension supervising authority may, to the extent the pension supervising authority considers appropriate, require the scheme manager to withhold benefits payable under this scheme to or in respect of the member.

Paragraph (3) applies if benefits are to be withheld as a result of an offence falling within paragraph (b) of the definition of “relevant offence”.

The scheme manager may only withhold that part of a person's pension that exceeds any guaranteed minimum to which the person is entitled under—

The pension supervising authority may to the extent that in its discretion it thinks fit restore to the member or apply for the benefit of an eligible child or surviving adult of the member any amount of pension that has been forfeited under this regulation.

In this regulation—

• “forfeiture certificate” means a certificate given by the Secretary of State for the Home Department stating that the Secretary of State for the Home Department considers that the offence—

  1. (a)

     has been gravely injurious to the interests of the State; or

  2. (b)

     is liable to lead to serious loss of confidence in service by members of police forces in England and Wales; and

• “relevant offence” means—

  1. (a)

     one or more offences under the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1989 M2 F1, or under section 18 of, or listed in section 33(3)(a) of, the National Security Act 2023, for which the member has been sentenced on the same occasion to—

     1. (i)

        a term of imprisonment of at least 10 years; or

     2. (ii)

        2 or more consecutive terms of imprisonment which add up to at least 10 years;

  2. (b)

     an offence committed in connection with the member's service as a member of a police force and in respect of which the Secretary of State for the Home Department has issued a forfeiture certificate.