{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/646",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Amendment Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations—\n(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (5),”; and\n(b) there shall be deleted the words from “, but, in the case of a person to whom paragraph (5) applies,” to the end.\n(2) For regulation 4(5) of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following—\n“(5) Where, on or after 1st April 1991, a person to whom regulation 3(1) of these Regulations applies or to whom regulation 3(1) of the previous Regulations applied is or was on leave of absence from an employment mentioned in those regulations with reduced emoluments by reason of the injury or disease, there shall be payable by that person’s employing authority on behalf of the Secretary of State, during or in respect of the period of such leave and without regard to any reduction in the person’s earning ability, an annual allowance of the amount, if any, which when added to the aggregate of—\n(a) the emoluments payable to the person during his leave of absence, and\n(b) the value, expressed as an annual amount, of any of the pensions and benefits specified in paragraph (6) (including the value of any equivalent benefits payable under the enactments consolidated by the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992), will provide an income of 85 per cent. of his average remuneration.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/646/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:55.185163+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}