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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-pensions-amendment-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/259",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-pensions-amendment-regulations-1997",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese regulations further amend the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1988 (the principal regulations) so as to abolish the requirement on the Police Authority to pay a transfer value in respect of a member who transfers to a police force in Great Britain and to modify the calculation of pensions in cases where there has been part-time service.\nRegulations 7 and 8 of these regulations abolish, in relation to members transferring on or after 31st March 1996, the requirement on the Police Authority to pay a transfer value. In its place the regulation inserted by regulation 8 of these regulations requires the Police Authority to provide to the police authority responsible for the maintenance of the police force to which the member transfers a certificate of the pension entitlements of that member. The amendments made by regulations 3, 4(1), 5 and 9, which are consequential on these changes, also have effect on and after 31st March 1996.\nRegulation 6 provides for part-time service under regulation 5 of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996 to be multiplied, for the purpose of determining pensionable service, by the appropriate factor (which for ranks below inspector is, by reference to the period covered by a duty roster, the number of hours the holder of such an appointment is required to work divided by the number of hours required of a full-time member; for ranks of inspector and above the factor is one half). Regulation 4(2) and (3) requires an assumption of continuing part-time service to be made for the purpose of calculating a deferred pension where a member’s final service was part-time. Regulation 10 requires pay during part-time service to be scaled up to a full-time equivalent for the purpose of calculating average pensionable pay; and regulation 11 amends Schedule A to the principal regulations by inserting definitions of “the appropriate factor” and “part-time service”. All these amendments have effect on and after 12th November 1996.\nRetrospective effect is authorised by Articles 14 and 15 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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