{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/113",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Active member of the 1988 scheme on scheme closing date",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if any of the following sub-paragraphs applies.\n(2) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of the 1988 scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31st March 2012; and\n(b) on 1st April 2012, P had reached 41 but had not reached 45.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of the 1988 scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31st March 2012; and\n(b) on 1st April 2012—\n(i) P had reached 34 but had not reached 38; and\n(ii) P had at least 20 years' pensionable service under the 1988 scheme.\n(4) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of the 1988 scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31st March 2012; and\n(b) on 1st April 2012—\n(i) P had reached 38 but had not reached 45; and\n(ii) P had at least 16 but less than 20 years' pensionable service under the 1988 scheme.\n(5) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) P was an active member of the 1988 scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31st March 2012; and\n(b) on 1st April 2012—\n(i) P had not reached 38;\n(ii) P had less than 20 years' pensionable service under the 1988 scheme; and\n(iii) the sum of P's age in years and the number of years of P's pensionable service under the 1988 scheme is at least 54 but less than 58.\n(6) This sub-paragraph applies if—\n(a) on 31st March 2012, P was an active member of the scheme constituted by the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme;\n(b) P began pensionable service under the 1988 scheme immediately after ceasing to be in pensionable service under the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme;\n(c) on the scheme closing date, P was an active member of the 1988 scheme; and\n(d) P would have been a full protection member or tapered protection member of the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme had P remained in pensionable service under that scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/113/schedule/4/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:04.118896+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."
}