{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-injury-benefit-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-injury-benefit-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/156",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-injury-benefit-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, these Regulations shall be construed as one with the Police Pensions Regulations 1973 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Regulations”).\n(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1)—\n(a) in these Regulations—\n(i) “taxable allowances” includes all taxable allowances payable by virtue of regulations from time to time in force under section 33 of the Police Act 1964 or section 26 of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967;\n(ii) “total remuneration”, in relation to a member of a police force, means the sum of his pensionable pay and taxable allowances payable to him;\n(iii) notwithstanding Regulation 13(3) of the principal Regulations, “totally disabled” means incapable by reason of the disablement in question of earning any money in any employment and “total disablement” shall be construed accordingly; and\n(b) in the case of a person who is totally disabled, Regulation 13(1) of the principal Regulations shall have effect, for the purposes of these Regulations, as if the reference to “that disablement being … likely to be permanent” were a reference to the total disablement of that person being likely to be permanent.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (S.) (with effect from 6.4.2006) by The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/68), reg. 1(1), sch. 2 Pt. 3 (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 17.3.1987 with retropsective effect from 25.11.1982, see reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1973/428; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1978/1348, 1983/996, 1985/156, 1986/1379."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1964 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1967 c. 77."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1987/256",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 1987"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/2349",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Pensions and Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/156/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:12.805657+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."
}