The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2014

These Regulations amend the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 (“the 1987 Regulations”) and the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 in consequence of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. Section 11 of the Act provides for the law of England and Wales to apply to marriages of same sex couples as it applies to marriages of opposite sex couples. Schedule 3 includes “glossing” provisions which require references in legislation to marriage, married couples and people who are married to be read as including references to marriages of same sex couples, and there is similar provision in relation to people who are living together as a married couple.