{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-49.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/49",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Active member of the 1987 scheme on scheme closing date",
  "text": "(1) This sub-paragraph applies in relation to a person (P) who—\n(a) was an active member of the 1987 scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31st March 2012; and\n(b) ceases to be in pensionable service under the 1987 scheme.\n(2) This sub-paragraph applies in relation to a person (P) who—\n(a) was an active member of the 1988 NI police pension scheme on 31st March 2012;\n(b) was an active member of the 1987 scheme on the scheme closing date; and\n(c) ceases to be in pensionable service under the 1987 scheme.\n(3) P joins the 2006 scheme if—\n(a) P re-enters pensionable service not more than 5 years after ceasing to be in pensionable service under the 1987 scheme; and\n(b) P would have been a full protection member or tapered protection member of the 1987 scheme had P re-entered pensionable service under that scheme.\n(4) P is taken to be a full protection member or tapered protection member of the 2006 scheme.\n(5) P's protection period—\n(a) begins on the day P joins the 2006 scheme; and\n(b) ends when P ceases to be a full protection member or tapered protection member of the 2006 scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/445/schedule/4/paragraph/49",
    "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."
}