{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1887",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "The Police Pensions Regulations 1987",
  "text": "(1) Regulation A6 (meaning of certain expressions in relation to persons who are not members of a home police force) is amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph (5), insert the following paragraphs—\n“(5A) For the purposes of these Regulations, a specified employee of SOCA shall be deemed to be a member of a home police force, except where the context otherwise requires.\n(5B) In relation to a specified employee of SOCA—\n(a) a reference in these Regulations to a force shall be construed as a reference to SOCA;\n(b) a reference in these Regulations to a police authority shall be construed as a reference to SOCA.\n(5C) For the purposes of regulation A4(3) to (6)—\n(a) a specified employee of SOCA shall be deemed to hold the rank of a member of a home police force (other than the metropolitan police force) equivalent to his SOCA grade as set out in the following table—\nSOCA grade\nEquivalent rank\n5\nConstable\n4\nSergeant\n3\nInspector (but not chief inspector)\n2\nSuperintendent (but not chief superintendent)\n1\nChief superintendent\n(b) a specified employee of SOCA with a SOCA grade which is higher than 1 shall be deemed to hold the rank of assistant chief constable.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1887/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:27:24.538387+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."
}