{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Retirement",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the provisions mentioned in paragraph (3) and subject to paragraph (2), a member of a police force may retire only if he has given to the police authority one month’s written notice of his intention to retire or such shorter notice as may have been accepted by that authority:\nProvided that, while suspended under the Discipline Regulations, a member may not, without the consent of the chief officer of police, give notice for the purposes of this regulation or retire in pursuance of a notice previously given.\n(2) In the case of a chief officer of police or assistant chief constable, paragraph (1) shall have effect as if for the reference to the chief officer of police there were substituted a reference to the police authority.\n(3) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) prior to 1st April 1995, the provisions of sections 5 and 6 of the 1964 Act relating to retirement in the interests of efficiency;\n(b) on or after 1st April 1995, the provisions of sections 5A(2) to (4) and 6(3) of the 1964 Actrelating to retirement in the interests of efficiency and effectiveness;\n(c) the provisions of section 58(3) of the 1964 Act relating to the retirement of chief constables affected by amalgamations or local government reorganisation;\n(d) the provisions of the Police Pensions Regulations relating to compulsory retirement, and\n(e) the provisions of the Discipline Regulations relating to resignation as an alternative to dismissal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 5A and 6 were substituted by section 5 and 6 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (1.1.2002)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3888",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (Consequential Amendments) (Police Ranks) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/547",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1549",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater London Authority Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Police) Order 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/215/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:38.937189+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."
}