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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2006/schedule-3/paragraph-17",
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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": "schedule/3/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If a regular police officer is ineligible for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement under regulation G7 of the 1987 Regulations and is an officer to whom regulation 6(5), (6) or (7) applies, he may at the time of making his transfer election request by notice in writing given to the police authority that his eligibility for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement be redetermined by the police authority in accordance with regulation 8.\n(2) Where a regular police officer gives such notice as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), regulation 8 shall apply to him and his eligibility for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement shall be determined by the police authority in accordance with that regulation, subject to any appeal in accordance with regulation 70; and if the police authority determine under regulation 8(3) or 8(4) (as applicable) that the risk presented by that officer that he will retire on the ground that he is permanently disabled is such that the likely cost of providing him with benefits under these Regulations is not disproportionately high he shall be eligible for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement from the date on which his transfer election took effect but only in respect of his pensionable service from that date.\n(3) Where a regular police officer is eligible for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement in accordance with sub-paragraph (2)—\n(a) regulation 29 shall apply to him from the date on which his transfer election took effect; and\n(b) in calculating his entitlement to any standard ill-health pension or any enhanced top-up ill-health pension the pensionable service he is entitled to reckon as at the date of his retirement shall only comprise service from the date on which his transfer election took effect.\n(4) If, as a result of a determination and any appeal following that determination under sub-paragraph (2), the officer is ineligible for pension awards payable on the ground of permanent disablement for the purposes of these Regulations he may within 28 days of receiving notice of such ineligibility, elect to cancel his transfer election by notice in writing given to the police authority.\n(5) Where a regular police officer has elected to cancel his transfer election in accordance with paragraph (4), he shall be treated for all purposes as if the transfer election had not been made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/2009/2060",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    }
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  "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."
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