{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-act-1976/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-act-1976/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/35",
  "legislation_title": "Police Pensions Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-act-1976",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Appeals.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, regulations made under section 1 above shall make provision as to the court or other person by whom appeals are to be heard and determined in the case of any person who is aggrieved—\n(a) by the refusal of the police pension authority to admit a claim to receive as of right a pension, or a larger pension than that granted, under regulations made under that section; or\n(b) by the forfeiture of any pension granted to him thereunder.\n(2) No provision made in the regulations by virtue of subsection (1) above shall confer a right of appeal against anything done by the police pension authority in the exercise of any power which is conferred on that authority by the regulations and is expressly declared by the regulations to be a power which that authority is to exercise in their discretion.\n(3) The regulations may provide, in relation to questions arising thereunder, for the reference of any such matter as is prescribed, either by the police pension authority or by the court, to a medical practitioner whose decision thereon shall, subject to such rights of appeal as may be provided by the regulations to such tribunal as may be constituted thereunder, be final on the matter so referred.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(a) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 130(a); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(2) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 130(b)(i); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(2) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 130(b)(ii); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(2) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 130(b)(iii); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(3) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 130(c); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6: transfer of certain functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, arts. 1, 2, Sch. 1 (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 6: for previous exercises of power see Index to Government OrdersS. 6: S. 1 ( with ss. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ) : power exercised by S.I.1991/1304"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/35/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:30:09.457068+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."
}