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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-injury-benefit-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/341",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-injury-benefit-amendment-regulations-1987",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 1987 (the principal Regulations) in order to correct a number of errors of substance and drafting.\nRegulation 4 of the principal Regulations (disablement gratuity) is amended to remove the condition of eligibility that the disablement must have occurred on or after 25th November 1982 even where the injury from which it resulted was received before that date.\nRegulation 5 of the principal Regulations (death gratuity) is amended to include a reference to the decision of a medical authority on appeal or reconsideration that a person is permanently and totally disabled, and to exclude the exceptional applicability of both Regulation 4 and Regulation 5.\nRegulation 8 of the principal Regulations (abatement in respect of damages or compensation) is amended to substitute, for the police authority’s right to take proceedings for the recovery of the amount of any damages or compensation, a provision that the recipient of a gratuity under the Regulations must have given an undertaking to repay such an amount to the police authority. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (admissibility of certificates in evidence) is omitted.\nThese Regulations also make consequential amendments to the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 and the Police Pensions (Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 1987 in their reference to the principal Regulations.\nAs in the case of the principal Regulations, these Regulations come into force on 17th March 1987 and have effect as from 25th November 1982 (retrospection is authorised by section 1(5) of the Police Pensions Act 1976).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/341/note",
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  "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."
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