Explanatory note

These regulations revoke, in so far as they apply to the RUC (Part-time) Reserve, and re-enact in a different format the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Pensions) Regulations 1973 which applied to members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve the provisions of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1988 relating to member’s injury award, widow’s special award, widow’s augmented award, adult dependent relative’s special pension, child’s special allowance and child’s special gratuity.

Under these regulations such awards are no longer calculated, as was the case under the revoked regulations, on the basis that the member’s service was service as a constable in the RUC, subject to a maximum of 10 years: regulation 7 provides that the member’s service is to be treated as service as a full-time member of the Reserve without restriction as to its length.

Regulation 8 makes consequential amendments to the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Injury Benefit) Regulations 1988 in their application to the Part-time Reserve.