{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/445",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Pensionable service under a police scheme",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of this Schedule, a transition member (T) is in pensionable service under a police scheme while T is on unpaid leave from the employment to which that service relates.\n(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1)—\n“a police scheme” means—\n(a)the 1987 scheme;\n(b)the 1988 NI police pension scheme;\n(c)the 2006 scheme;\n(d)the existing Scotland police pension scheme;\n(e)the 2009 NI police pension scheme;\n(f)the 2015 Scotland police pension scheme; or\n(g)the 2015 NI police pension scheme; and\n“unpaid leave”, in relation to employment to which pensionable service under a police scheme relates, means—\n(a)a career break; or\n(b)any other period of unpaid leave—\n(i)that does not exceed 5 years; and\n(ii)during which the employment relationship continues .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See regulation 22 for periods of unpaid leave during which the employment relationship continues."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}