{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1991/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1991/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Making and acceptance of elections",
  "text": "(1) Any election under these Regulations—\n(a) is to be made by giving written notice to the police authority police pension authority, and\n(b) is, subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), to be accepted by the authority.\n(2) No election under these Regulations is to be accepted if any limit imposed by regulation 8(4) (payment and amount of contributions) would be exceeded.\n(2A) No election under regulation 4(1) (payment of basic contributions) or 5(1) (payment of death benefit contributions) made on or after 1st October 2010 is to be accepted.\n(2B) No election under regulation 6(1)(a) (alteration of amount of basic contributions) or 6(2)(a) (alteration of amount to be secured by death benefit contributions) made on or after 1st October 2010 is to be accepted if it would have the effect of increasing the amount of the basic contributions or the amount to be secured by the death benefit contributions, as the case may be.\n(2A) No election under regulation 4(1) (election to pay basic contributions) or 5(1) (elections in respect of death benefit cover) made on or after 1st October 2010 is to be accepted.\n(2B) No election under regulation 6(1)(a) (election to alter amount of basic contributions) or regulation 6(2)(a) or 6(3) (elections to alter amount to be secured by death benefit contributions) made on or after 1st October 2010 is to be accepted if it would have the effect of increasing the amount of the basic contributions or the amount to be secured by the death benefit contributions, as the case may be.\n(3) An election falling within regulation 16(2) (death benefit cover, continued death benefit cover and increased death benefit cover) is not to be accepted if—\n(a) any information required under regulation 16(2) is not given, or\n(b) the information given is such that the cover could not be secured by investment under regulation 9(3).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The police authority police pension authority are to give effect as soon as is reasonably practicable to any election accepted by them.",
  "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. 3(2) substituted (E.W.) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Police Pension Schemes and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/530), regs. 1(1), 20(a) and (S.) (1.4.2019) by The Police Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/68), regs. 1(2), 13(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2A)(2B) inserted (E.W.) (1.10.2010) by The Police Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2235), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2A)(2B) inserted (S.) (1.10.2010) by The Police Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/320), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3(4) omitted (E.W.) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Police Pension Schemes and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/530), regs. 1(1), 20(b) and (S.) (1.4.2019) by virtue of The Police Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/68), regs. 1(2), 13(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.7.1991, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1304/regulation/3",
    "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."
}