Regulation 4 Elections in respect of protected benefits
This regulation applies to a person—
to whom a protected benefit is being paid or may become payable, and
who is placed in a worse position than he would have been in if an amendment made to the principal Regulations by regulation 3 of the 1990 Regulations or regulation 2 above (“the relevant amendment”) had not applied in relation to the protected benefit.
A protected benefit is one which is being paid or may become payable by a police authority, under the principal Regulations, to or in respect of a person who, having served as a regular policeman within the meaning of those Regulations, ceased to serve as one, or died, before the material date.
The material date—
in relation to an amendment made by regulation 3 of the 1990 Regulations, is 1st May 1990, and
in relation to the amendment made by regulation 2 above, is 1st August 1991.
A person to whom this regulation applies may, by giving written notice to the police authority within 3 months after 1st August 1991, elect that the relevant amendment is not to apply in relation to the protected benefit.