{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-remediable-service-scotland-regulations-2023/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-remediable-service-scotland-regulations-2023/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2023/239",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-remediable-service-scotland-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Deferred choice election: deemed section 10 election",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) the end of the section 10 election period in relation to M has passed,\n(b) no deferred choice decision has been made, and\n(c) it appears to the scheme manager, having consulted the scheme actuary, that the value of reformed scheme benefits payable if a deferred choice election is made is greater than the value legacy scheme benefits payable if a deferred choice election is not made,\na deferred choice election is treated as having been made immediately before the end of the section 10 election period.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(b) substituted (with effect from 1.10.2023) by virtue of The Police Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/114), regs. 1(2), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 1.10.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/239/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:44:13.203342+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."
}