{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-northern-ireland-regulations-2009/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-northern-ireland-regulations-2009/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/79",
  "legislation_title": "THE POLICE PENSION (NORTHERN IRELAND) REGULATIONS 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-northern-ireland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Compulsory retirement on the ground of efficiency of the police service",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) this regulation applies to a police officer of the rank of Chief Superintendent, Superintendent, Chief Inspector, Inspector, Sergeant or Constable who is entitled to reckon 35 years’ pensionable service (or would have been so entitled if he had not made an election under regulation 7).\n(2) If the Board determine that the retention in the police service of a police officer to whom this regulation applies would not be in the general interests of efficiency, he may be required to retire on such date, on or after the date on which he attains the age of 55 years, as the Board determine.\n(3) This regulation shall not apply to a specified NCA officer ....",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(3) substituted (7.10.2013) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2318), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 105(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(3) omitted (7.10.2013) by virtue of The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2318), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 105(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in operation at 6.4.2009 with effect in accordance with s. 1(2)(3), see s. 1(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/79/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:32:54.646326+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."
}