{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Referral to appointed medical practitioner",
  "text": "(1) If a final decision is referred to a medical authority for reconsideration under paragraph 3 or 4 and the medical authority is unable or unwilling to act, the final decision may be referred to an appointed medical practitioner.\n(2) The decision of an appointed medical practitioner has effect as if it were that of the medical authority who gave the final decision.\n(3) In this paragraph, “appointed medical practitioner” means a duly qualified medical practitioner or a board of duly qualified medical practitioners—\n(a) agreed by the member of the police force and the police pension authority; or\n(b) appointed by the court or tribunal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 applied (1.10.2023) by The Police Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/831), regs. 1(b), 51(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 applied (1.10.2023) by The Police Pensions (Remediable Service) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/831), regs. 1(b), 51(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:30.636565+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."
}