{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/113",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Pensionable earnings during a period of assumed pay",
  "text": "(1) An active member of this scheme (P) is taken to receive in respect of a period of assumed pay an amount equal to the sum of —\n(a) the amount of pensionable earnings that P would have received in respect of the period of assumed pay had the circumstances at paragraph (2) not applied; and\n(b) any increase the scheme manager considers appropriate.\n(2) For the purpose of these Regulations, “a period of assumed pay” is a period in respect of which any of the following circumstances apply—\n(a) P is on reduced pay while on sick leave, paid adoption leave, paid maternity leave, paid parental leave, paid paternity leave, paid maternity support leave or paid adoption support leave;\n(b) P is receiving statutory pay;\n(c) P is on unpaid maternity leave during the first 26 weeks of maternity leave;\n(d) P is absent from duty because of being called out or recalled for permanent service in Her Majesty's armed forces in pursuance of a call-out notice served, or a call-out or recall order made, under the Reserve Forces Act 1996 ;or\n(e) P voluntarily surrenders pensionable earnings in whole or in part.\n(3) Paragraph (2)(d) does not apply to any period of permanent service during which P is in pensionable service in—\n(a) an existing scheme that relates to the armed forces or another scheme under section 1 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 that relates to the armed forces; or\n(b) any other occupational pension scheme.\n(4) This regulation does not apply to a member who falls within regulation 4(1)(b) or(d).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1996 c.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "See section 18(2) of the Act for the meaning of “existing scheme”"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "2013 c.25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/113/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:04.118896+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."
}