The Police Pensions and Police (Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

These Regulations amend the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 and the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 to allow widows or surviving civil partners who are in receipt of pensions or gratuities under those Regulations to retain those pensions or gratuities in the event they marry, remarry, form a civil partnership or start to cohabit with someone else as husband or wife or as civil partners. This change only applies to widows or surviving civil partners who marry, remarry, form a civil partnership or start to cohabit after 1st April 2015 and who are in receipt of a special award under regulation 13 (including a pension by way of an augmented award under regulation 14) of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006 at that time. This change will come into force retrospectively from 1st April 2015.