{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1991/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1991/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1304",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Appeals",
  "text": "(1) A person who is aggrieved by the refusal of the police authority police pension authority to admit a claim to receive as of right a pension, or a larger pension than that granted, under these Regulations may, subject to paragraph (2), appeal—\n(a) if he was, or the claim is to a pension in respect of a person who was, a member of a police force within the meaning of the Police Act 1964 maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996, the metropolitan police force, the City of London police, the Director General of the National Crime Squad, the Director General of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, a police member of the National Crime Squad appointed under section 55(1)(b) of the Police Act 1997 or a police member of the National Criminal Intelligence Service appointed under section 9(1)(b) of the Police Act 1997, to the Crown Court, or\n(b) if he was, or the claim is to a pension in respect of a person who was, a member of a police force within the meaning of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967, to the sheriff having jurisdiction in the place where he last served as such a member, or\n(c) if he was, or the claim is to a pension in respect of a person who was, an overseas policeman, an inspector or assistant inspector of constabulary or a central police officer, to the Secretary of State.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not confer a right of appeal against anything done by the police authority police pension authority in the exercise of a power conferred by these Regulations which is rexpressly declared by these Regulations to be a power which they are to exercise in their discretion.\n(3) In this regulation “pension” includes any lump sum payable under these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (E.W.) (16.1.2012) by The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/3063), regs. 1(1), 2-4, Sch. (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(1)(a) substituted (E.W.) (15.11.2003) by The Police Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2717), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 1.7.1991, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1967 c. 77."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1304/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:43:22.820768+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."
}