{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-1991/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1517",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Elections in respect of protected benefits",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a person—\n(a) to whom a protected benefit is being paid or may become payable, and\n(b) 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.\n(2) 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.\n(3) The material date—\n(a) in relation to an amendment made by regulation 3 of the 1990 Regulations, is 1st May 1990, and\n(b) in relation to the amendment made by regulation 2 above, is 1st August 1991.\n(4) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1517/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:01.701899+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."
}