SUSPENSION OF AWARD OF COMPETENCE RELATED THRESHOLD PAYMENT
1) Subject to the remaining paragraphs of this Part, no new applications for a competence related threshold payment shall be entertained in the relevant period.
2) The only applications made before 1st April 2012 that shall continue to be dealt with in accordance with Part 9 during the relevant period are those in the case of which the member’s relevant service had entitled him to be at the top of the pay scale for his rank for at least one year by that date.
3) For the avoidance of doubt, a re-application by an officer who was in receipt of a competence related threshold payment as at 31st March 2012 is not a new application for the purposes of paragraph (1).
4) In this Part “the relevant period” means the period from 1st April 2012 to 31st March 2014