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2.—(1) The Police Pensions Act 1976 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 7(2) (persons eligible for police pensions)(1) after paragraph (d) insert—
“(e)a person serving as a senior NCA officer;
(f)a person serving as Chief Executive of the body known as the College of Policing;”.
(3) In section 11 (interpretation)(2)—
(a)in subsection (1) (references to membership of a police force etc), at the end insert—
“(d)service as a senior NCA officer;
(e)service as Chief Executive of the body known as the College of Policing.”;
(b)in subsection (2A)(b) (identity of police pension authority and pension supervising authority), for “or (c)” substitute “, (c) or (d)”;
(c)at the end of subsection (2A) insert—
“(i)in relation to any service such as is mentioned in subsection (1)(e) or any service of the kind described in section 97(1)(i) of the Police Act 1996, “police pension authority” or “pension supervising authority” means the body known as the College of Policing.”;
(d)in subsection (3) (meaning of “police force”)—
(i)in paragraph (b), for “or (c)” substitute “(c), (d) or (e)”;
(ii)after “service such as is mentioned in subsection (1)(bh)” insert “or (d)”;
(e)in subsection (5), after the definition of “pension rights” insert—
““senior NCA officer” means—
the Director General and Deputy Director General of the body known as the National Crime Agency;
the officers of that body who report directly to the Director General or Deputy Director General; and
the Head of the National Cyber Crime Unit in that body;”;
(f)After subsection (8) insert—
“(8A) References in this Act to a senior NCA officer or the Chief Executive of the body known as the College of Policing, and to service as such, have effect only in relation to cases where the person in question is (immediately before beginning that service) a member, or eligible to be a member, of a pension scheme provided for under section 1 above or section 25(2)(k) or 26(2)(g) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998(3).”.
Section 7(2) was amended by the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), the Police Act 1996, the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (c. 32), the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16), the International Development Act 2002 (c. 1), the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c. 47), the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48) and S.I. 2010/899 so as to reflect the addition of further descriptions of service to section 11(1) by virtue of the same enactments.
Section 11(1) was amended as described in the footnote relating to section 7(2); consequential amendments were made by the same enactments to sections 11(2) and (3). Section 11(2) was further amended and divided, creating section 11(2A), by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13).
1998 c. 32. Sections 25(2)(k) and 26(2)(g) were amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 6 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000.
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