The Police Pensions Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 24) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made provision for the pensions to be paid to and in respect of members of police forces in Great Britain, consolidating and repealing earlier statutory provisions relating to police pensions.

Provisions Repealed enactments Section 3(4) of the act repealed 20 enactments and 7 instruments, listed in parts I and II of the first schedule to the act, respectively.

+Part I – Acts repealedCitationShort titleExtent of repeal10 Geo. 4. c. 44Metropolitan Police Act 1829In section twelve, the words "or as a compensation for wounds or severe injuries received in the performance of their duty, or as an allowance to such of them as shall be disabled by bodily injury received, or shall be worn out by length of service".22 & 23 Vict. c. 32County and Borough Police Act 1859Section twenty-two.28 & 29 Vict. c. 35Police Superannuation Act 1865The whole act.51 & 52 Vict. c. ixLincolnshire Police Superannuation Act 1888Sections four and five.4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 34Police Reservists (Allowances) Act 1914Subsection (2) of section one.4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 80Police Constables (Naval and Military Service) Act 1914The whole act.5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. 41Police (Emergency Provisions) Act 1915The whole act.8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 51Police (Pensions) Act 1918The whole act.9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 46Police Act 1919In subsection (1) of section four the word "pensions"; section five; and in section fourteen the word "pensions".10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. xxviiCity of London (Various Powers) Act 1920Sections twelve and thirteen.11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 31Police Pensions Act 1921The whole act except so much of section thirty as precedes the provisos thereto, subsection (1) of section thirty-five and the Third Schedule.16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 34Police Pensions Act 1926The whole act.23 & 24 Geo. 5. c. 33Metropolitan Police Act 1933Section two and subsection (2) of section four.2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 103Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1939In section two, the words "police force or", in both places where those words occur, the words "constable or" wherever those words occur, and the words "sections nine and twenty of the Police Pensions Act, 1921 and"; in section three the words "constable or" wherever those words occur; subsection (1) of section four; in subsection (3) of section four, the words "police force or", the words "constable or" wherever those words occur, and the words "in the case of a constable, by an injury received in the execution of his duty as a constable without his own default and"; in subsection (4) of section four, the words "constable or" in both places where those words occur, and paragraph (i); in subsection (5) of section four, the words "(1) or", the words "constable or" in both places where those words occur and the words "subsection (1) or"; in section five, the words "constable or" in both places where those words occur; subsection (1) of section six; in subsection (2) of section ten the words "police force or", wherever those words occur, and the words "constable or"; in section eleven, the words "the Police Pensions Act, 1921 and"; in subsection (3) of section thirteen the words "constable or", wherever those words occur; and in section fourteen, in the definition of "appropriate pension enactment", the words "in relation to a person who has ceased to serve as a constable, means the Police Pensions Act, 1921, as amended by any subsequent enactment and".7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 21Pensions (Increase) Act 1944Paragraph 2 of Part II of the First Schedule.7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 22Police and Firemen (War Service) Act 1944In subsection (1) of section one (which substitutes a new section four for section four of the Police and Firemen (War Service) Act, 1939) the same words as are specified in paragraph 14 of this Part of this Schedule in relation to section four; in subsection (1) of section two the words "(1) or" and the words "constable or"; in subsection (2) of section two the words "constable or"; paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section two; in subsection (1) of section three, the words "(1) and"; in subsection (3) of section three the words "police force or" and the words "constable or"; in subsection (1) of section four the words "constable or"; in section five the words "police force or" wherever those words occur and the words "constable or"; in subsection (2) of section six the words "constables or" in both places where they occur.9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 17Police (Overseas Service) Act 1945In subsection (2) of section one the words from "and may" to the end of the subsection; subsections (3) and (4) of the said section one; in subsection (1) of section two the words "subject to the provisions of any regulations made under section one of this Act" and the words "the Police Pensions Act, 1921, and of".9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 46Police Act 1946Paragraphs (b) and (c) of, and the proviso to, subsection (3) of section eleven, and subsections (4) and (5) of that section; paragraph 10 of the Second Schedule; and in the Third Schedule, paragraph 3 and sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 5.9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 71Police (Scotland) Act 1946Paragraphs (b) and (c) of, and the proviso to, subsection (2) of section seven, and subsections (3) and (4) of that section; paragraph 7 of the First Schedule; and paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Third Schedule.10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 7Pensions (Increase) Act 1947Subsection (3) of section two.

+Part II – Rules and regulations repealedTitleExtent of repealPolice War Reserve Rules 1945Rule 31.Police War Reserve (Scotland) Rules 1945Rule 35.Women's Auxiliary Police Corps Rules 1945Part VII.Women's Auxiliary Police Corps (Scotland) Rules 1945Part VII.Police (Overseas Service) (Germany) Regulations 1947Part II and the Second Schedule.Police (Overseas Service) (Austria) Regulations 1947Part II and the Second Schedule.Police (Overseas Service) (Greece) Regulations 1948Part II and the Second Schedule.

Section 9(2) of the act repealed 2 enactments, listed in the second schedule to the act.

+Enactments repealed as from the passing of the actCitationShort titleExtent of repeal11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 31Police Pensions Act 1921Section fifteen and paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section seventeen.23 & 24 Geo. 5. c. 33Metropolitan Police Act 1933Subsection (1) of section four.

Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed by section 13(2) of, and schedule 3 to, the Police Pensions Act 1976, which came into force on 22 July 1976.

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