{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987/regulation-A8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987/regulation-A8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/A8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "A8",
  "heading": "Persons treated as being in receipt of a pension",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations, except where otherwise expressly provided, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of an ordinary, short service, ill-health or, as the case may be, injury pension if he would be in receipt of such a pension—\n(a) in the case of an ordinary pension—\n(i) had he attained the age of 50 years, or\n(ii) had it not been wholly withdrawn under Regulation K4 (withdrawal of pension during service as a regular policeman);\n(b) in the case of a short service or ill-health pension, had it not been withdrawn as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a)(ii);\n(c) in the case of an injury pension, had the aggregate reductions therein under paragraphs 3 and 4 of Part V of Schedule B not exceeded the amount of the pension calculated in accordance with paragraph 2 thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/68",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/68",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/257/regulation/A8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:32:23.021534+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."
}