The Police Service of Northern Ireland Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2006
These Regulations amend the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1988 and the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions (Purchase of Increased Benefits) Regulations 1988. The amendments include provision for part-time members' pension benefits to be calculated as if they had been full-time members, and then pro-rated for periods of part-time service. This replaces the previous basis of calculation under which part-time working counted as pensionable service on the basis of the actual hours served. This disadvantaged part-time members because the reckonable service is accrued at a faster rate after 20 reckonable years.