{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-reserve-part-time-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-reserve-part-time-pensions-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/261",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Part-time) Pensions Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-reserve-part-time-pensions-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these regulations the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them—\n“the 1949 Order” means the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Order 1949;\n“other relevant provision” means the 1949 Order, the 1950 Regulations, the Pensions Regulations or the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve (Full-time) Pensions Regulations 1994;\n“other relevant service” means service as a full-time reserve member or service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary or in the Ulster Special Constabulary;\n“the Pensions Regulations” means the Royal Ulster Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1988;\n“the 1950 Regulations” means the Ulster Special Constabulary Pensions Regulations 1950;\n“reserve force” means the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve;\n“reserve member” means a member of the reserve force appointed on a part-time basis and includes a person who has been a reserve member;\n“full-time reserve member” means a member of the reserve force appointed on a full-time basis.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1949 No. 211 (p. 379)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1994 No. 197 as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1988 No. 374 as amended by S.R. 1988 No. 438, S.R. 1989 No. 387, S.R. 1990 No. 411, S.R. 1993 No. 223, S.R. 1993 No. 327 and S.R. 1996 No. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1950 No. 97 (p. 617)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/261/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:28:36.783623+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."
}