Regulation 4 Grounds of entitlement to compensation

(1)

Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, any person to whom these Regulations apply and who suffers loss of office as a member of a police force or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable to any provision of the Act or of any instrument made under the Act shall be entitled to have his case considered for the payment of compensation under these Regulations, and such compensation shall be determined in accordance with these Regulations.

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of these Regulations, paragraph (1) shall apply to a person who—

(a)

for the purposes of accepting an appointment as a member of a police force described in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph, terminates his services as a member of a police force;

(b)

at any time before 1st April 1974 accepted an appointment as a member of a police force for a police area as established on 1st April 1974;

(c)

would, but for his acceptance of the appointment described in the said sub-paragraph (b), have become on 1st April 1974 in accordance with the provisions of section 255 of the Act a member of a police force;

and in determining the compensating authority for the purposes of these Regulations, any loss or diminution of emoluments suffered by him which is attributable thereto shall be assumed to have occurred on the day after that on which he enters the employment described in the said sub-paragraph (b).