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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-pensions-amendment-regulations-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/240",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-pensions-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations further amend the Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1988.\nRegulation 3 provides for the pension rights of police officers who transfer to the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad to be preserved or transferred (without payment of a transfer value) at the election of the officer.\nRegulation 4(1) enables police officers who have suffered actionable loss by moving to a personal pension scheme to have opted-out or transferred-out service restored on payment of a transfer value to the Police Authority. Regulation 4(2) provides that the age restriction on re-entering the RUC pension arrangements and the requirement to undergo a medical examination before re-entry will not apply to such officers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/240/note",
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  "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."
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