§ Mr. Draysonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether police officers who have concluded 25 years' or more service before 1st July, 1947, and whose pensions were automatically secured, forfeit this assurance of a secured pension by accepting the terms of the Oaksey proposals to an increase in pay and pension based on an average of the last three years' pay.
§ Mr. EdeIn accordance with the recommendation made by the Oaksey Committee, the Police Pensions Regulations, 1949, do not provide for the payment of a police pension to a police officer with 25 years' service or more who is dismissed for a disciplinary offence, and 165W accordingly the automatic securing of the pensions of officers with more than 25 years' service, for which provision was made in the Police Pensions Regulations, 1948, ceased to have effect on 1st July, 1949. This abolition of securing is of general application and is not affected by the individual officer's decision whether or not to elect to have his pension based on the average of his pay during the last three years of his service and to receive the new rates of pay.