{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3415",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transfers",
  "text": "A reference to a regular police officer transferring from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to a regular police officer—\n(a) leaving a home police force for the purpose of joining another home police force as a regular police officer and joining that other force in that capacity, where—\n(i) not being the chief officer of police of, or a constable on probation in, the force first mentioned in this sub-paragraph, he leaves that force after giving a month’s notice in writing of his intention to do so to the police authority of that force, or such shorter period of notice as may have been accepted by that authority, or\n(ii) being the chief officer of police of, or a constable on probation in, that force, he leaves that force with the written consent of the chief officer of police or, in the case of the chief officer of police, of the police authority of that force; or\n(b) at the end of a period of relevant service joining another home police force as a regular police officer subject, in the case of a person who was, at the time he left the home police force in which he was serving immediately before engaging on that period of relevant service, the chief officer of that force, to his doing so with the written consent of the police authority of that force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "am (spec retrosp effect) (6.4.2006)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1887",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/431",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/2060",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/3063",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/3063",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/2318",
      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/2318",
      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Consequential Amendments and Saving Provision) Order 2013"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3415/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:10:40.840952+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."
}