{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-scotland-amendment-regulations-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/406",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-scotland-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 11 (retirement pensions)–\n(a) in paragraph (1) for “commencing on the date of his retirement” substitute\n“commencing–\n(a) in the case of a participator within paragraph (2), on the date of his retirement, and\n(b) in the case of a participator within paragraph (2A), from the date on which the police authority apply the amount obtained under paragraph (6) as mentioned in that paragraph.”;\n(b) in paragraph (2) after “participator” insert “who retires before 1st November 1999”;\n(c) after paragraph (2) insert–\n“(2A) A participator who retires on or after 1st November 1999 is to make a pension election before his 75th birthday.”;\n(d) in paragraph (3) for the words following sub-paragraph (c) substitute “and, in the case of a participator within paragraph (2), from which of the pension providers, or, in the case of a participator within paragraph (2A), from which insurance company, the pension is to be purchased.”;\n(e) in paragraph (6)–\n(i) for “(7) and (8)” substitute “(7) to (8)”; and\n(ii) after “pension provider” insert “or, as the case may be, insurance company”;\n(f) in paragraph (7) after “paragraph (8),” insert “in the case of a participator who retires before 1st November 1999,”; and\n(g) after paragraph (7) insert–\n“(7A) Subject to paragraph (8), in the case of a participator who retires on or after 1st November 1999 and does not make a pension election before his 75th birthday, the police authority shall apply the amount obtained to the purchase from an insurance company of such a retirement pension as appears to them to be suitable having regard to the participator’s family circumstances and his age and health.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/406/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:18.994800+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."
}