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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/regulation-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/regulation-56.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/473",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Allowance in respect of medical charges",
  "text": "(1) A member, if the charges are incurred by reason of an injury received without his default in the execution of his duty as a constable, shall be reimbursed the normal standard charges incurred in his case under Articles 5, 61, 62, 63 and 98 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (which Articles relate to charges for certain drugs, medicines and appliances and for dental treatment).\n(2) For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, the terms “injury” and “injury received in the execution of duty” have the same meanings as they have in the Pensions Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14) as modified by S.I. 1978/1907 (N.I. 26)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/95",
      "affecting_title": "Police Service of Northern Ireland Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2004/122",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Service of Northern Ireland (Secondment) (Garda Síochána) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/473/regulation/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:07.933033+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."
}