Section 15 Superannuation of metropolitan civil staffs.C1C2E1C3C4

In this section—

but does not include any person such as is mentioned in F4regulation B2(1)(l) of the M1Local Government Superannuation Regulations 1974;

The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime shall have power to grant pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are members of the metropolitan civil staffs by virtue of employment by that Office.

The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis shall have power to grant pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons who are members of the metropolitan civil staffs by virtue of employment by the Commissioner.

The F8Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, may, to such extent and subject to such conditions as F9that Office or Commissioner thinks fit, authorise the exercise of the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section by, or by employees of, any person.

Where a person is authorised under subsection (2A) above to exercise the function of administering the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section, anything done or omitted to be done by or in relation to him (or an employee of his) in, or in connection with, the exercise or purported exercise of the function shall be treated for all purposes as done or omitted to be done by the person who authorised him.

Subsection (2B) above does not apply for the purposes of—

Unless the powers conferred by section 7 of the M3 Superannuation Act 1972, section 50 of the Justices of the M4 Peace Act 1997, paragraph 36 of Schedule 14 to the M5 Access to Justice Act 1999 or Part XII of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 are exercised for the purpose of making provision with respect to the provision of pensions for or in respect of members of the metropolitan civil staffs, the civil service provisions shall have effect (subject to any regulations for the time being i force under subsection (3) of this section) for the purposes of the grant of pensions and other benefits under this section to or in respect of such a member, for the purposes of transfers (whether before, on or after the appointed day) between service as such a member and other service (not being service in the the civil service of the State), or for any connected purpose, as they have effect for the purposes of the grant by the Treasury ou t of moneys provided by Parliament or out of the Consolidated Fund of pensions or other benefits to or in respect of persons in the civil service of the State, for the purposes of transfers between that service and any other service (not being service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs), or of any corresponding connected purpose, as the caes may be, and as if employment as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs were employment in a public department.

The Secretary of State may F10with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service by regulations provide that any of the civil service provisions shall have effect for the purposes of pensions or other benefits under this section, or of transfers between service as a member of the metropolitan civil staffs and other service, or for any connected purpose, as the case may be—

and any such adaptations may be either general adaptations applicable to all the civil service provisions, whether or not passed or made at the date of the making of the regulations, or particular adaptations of particular provisions.

Regulations under subsection (3) of this section may be made so as to have effect as from any date not earlier than the date of the coming into force of the civil service provision in question, notwithstanding that the regulations are made after that date.

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Before making regulations under subsection (3) of this section the Secretary of State shall consult with persons appearing to him to represent the metropolitan civil staffs F15with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and before any such regulations come into operation the Secretary of State shall lay a copy thereof before Parliament.

Nothing in this section shall affect any pension or other benefit granted under the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts 1875 to 1931 before the appointed day, and accordingly any such pension or other benefit shall F16be paid by the F17Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

As from the appointed day the following provisions are hereby repealed or revoked, namely—

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