# The Police Pensions Regulations 2015, Paragraph 3: Pensionable service under a police scheme


(1) For the purpose of this Schedule, a transition member (T) is in pensionable service under a police scheme while T is on unpaid leave from the employment to which that service relates.
(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1)—
“a police scheme” means—
(a)the 1987 scheme;
(b)the 1988 NI police pension scheme;
(c)the 2006 scheme;
(d)the existing Scotland police pension scheme;
(e)the 2009 NI police pension scheme;
(f)the 2015 Scotland police pension scheme; or
(g)the 2015 NI police pension scheme; and
“unpaid leave”, in relation to employment to which pensionable service under a police scheme relates, means—
(a)a career break; or
(b)any other period of unpaid leave—
(i)that does not exceed 5 years; and
(ii)during which the employment relationship continues .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/schedule/4/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-3
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