{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-cadets-pensions-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-cadets-pensions-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1699",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Cadets (Pensions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-cadets-pensions-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of principal Regulations",
  "text": "In the Police Cadets (Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 1973, after regulation 7 there shall be inserted the following regulation:—\n“Dependent relative’s special pension\n7A (1) This regulation shall apply where a police cadet dies or has died as the result of an injury received without his own default and in the execution of his duty as a police cadet and, in such case, shall apply—\n(a) to a parent or (without prejudice to the following sub-paragraph) to a brother or sister of the police cadet who had attained the age of 19 years before the police cadet’s death, or\n(b) subject to his having attained the age of 19 years, to any child of the police cadet, whether or not he had attained that age before the police cadet’s death,\nbeing a person who was substantially dependent on the police cadet immediately before his death (hereinafter referred to in this regulation as a dependent relative).\n(2) A dependent relative to whom this regulation applies may be granted a special pension if the police authority, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, in their discretion so determine, and regulations 36(3) and Part XIII of the principal Regulations, or, as the case may be, regulations E1(3) and E9 of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987, shall apply subject to the necessary modifications as if the police cadet had been a regular policeman at the time when he received the injury.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1973/434, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Police Pensions Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/428), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations, revoked at 1st April 1987 by S.I. 1987/256."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/257, brought into force at 1st April 1987 by S.I. 1987/256."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1699/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:48.718954+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."
}