{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-and-injury-benefit-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-and-injury-benefit-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2349",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Pensions and Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-and-injury-benefit-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "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 Pensions Regulations or to the Injury Benefit Regulations by these Regulations (“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 Pensions Regulations or the Injury Benefit Regulations, to or in respect of a person who, having served as a member of a police force, ceased to serve as one, or died, before 1st November 1992.\n(3) A person to whom this regulation applies may, by giving written notice to the police authority within 3 months after 1st November 1992, elect that the relevant amendment is not to apply in relation to the protected benefit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 1.11.1992, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/2349",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Pensions and Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2349/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:15:43.635279+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."
}