{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-compensation-regulations-1974/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-compensation-regulations-1974/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/759",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Compensation) Regulations 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-compensation-regulations-1974",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Superannuation contributions",
  "text": "(1) A person entitled to retirement compensation under Regulation 19 or 20 shall pay to the compensating authority an amount equal to any award by way of repayment of aggregate contributions received by him under the Police Pensions Regulations on ceasing to be a member of a police force but, where he has made the said payment to the compensating authority before becoming entitled to retirement compensation as aforesaid, that authority may, at his request before he becomes so entitled, refund the payment to him; and if the said payment is not made to the compensating authority, or is refunded by them, the compensation shall be reduced by an annual amount the capital value of which is equal to the amount of the said award under the Police Pensions Regulations.\n(2) In the case of a person who undertook, for the purposes of the Police Pensions Regulations, to make payments by regular instalments in respect of previous service, the compensating authority shall be empowered to deduct the balance of the sum outstanding under the undertaking when he ceased to serve as a member of a police force, if any, from any payments to him of retirement compensation.\n(3) Any sums paid to a compensating authority under this Regulation, in respect of returned contributions under the Police Pensions Regulations shall be applied for the payment of compensation which the authority is liable to pay under this Part of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/759/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:40:24.192519+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."
}