HC Deb 17 October 1946 vol 427 cc1101-2

Amendment made: In page 6, line 21, at the end, insert: (2) A chief constable who is not transferred as aforesaid shall be deemed to have retired from his police force immediately before the date when the scheme came into force and the following provisions of this Subsection shall apply to him, that is to say:—

  1. (a) during the period of three months beginning with the said date (or, if within those three months he joins the combined force, during the period beginning with the said date and ending with the day before the date on which he joins that force) he shall be entitled to be paid by the joint police committee a salary and emoluments at the same rate as the salary and emoluments which he would have been entitled to receive had he continued to be the chief constable of his police force;
  2. (b) if during the said three months he joins the combined force, he shall be deemed for the purposes of the Police Pensions Act, 1921, to have served in that force during the period for which he is in receipt of a salary under paragraph (a) of this Subsection;
  3. (c) if during the said three months he does not join the combined force, there shall, at the expiration of the said three months, be payable by the joint police committee to him or, in the event of his death, to his wife, children or other dependent relatives, such pension, gratuity or allowance, and on such terms, as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State:

Provided that the amount of any pension, gratuity or allowance payable under paragraph (c) of this Subsection shall, in a case where the former chief constable would have been entitled, with the consent of the police authority, to retire at the expiration of the said three months without a medical certificate and receive an ordinary pension for life, be not less than it would have been if he had so retired; and the amount of any pension payable under that paragraph to the widow of a former chief constable shall not be reduced, in the event of his death, by reference to the number of complete years (if any) during which a pension was payable to him thereunder before he attained the age of sixty-five."

In page 7, line 31, at the end, insert: (4) The provisions of the Police Pensions Act, 1921, shall apply, subject to such exceptions and modifications as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State, to any pension, gratuity or allowance payable under paragraph (c) of Subsection (2) of this Section."—[Mr. T. Fraser.]

Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clauses 8 and 9 ordered to stand part of the Bill.