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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/schedule-4/paragraph-48.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/48",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Active member of the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme on scheme closing date who joins 2006 scheme",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to a person (P) who—\n(a) was an active member of the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme on the scheme closing date and on 31stMarch 2012; and\n(b) ceases to be in pensionable service under the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme.\n(2) P joins the 2006 scheme if—\n(a) P has a gap in pensionable service after ceasing to be in pensionable service under the 1987 Great Britain police pension scheme; and\n(b) 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.\n(3) P is taken to be a full protection member or tapered protection member of the 2006 scheme.\n(4) 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/nisr/2015/113/schedule/4/paragraph/48",
    "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."
}