{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-constables-injury-benefit-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-constables-injury-benefit-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/159",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Constables (Injury Benefit) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-constables-injury-benefit-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, these Regulations shall be construed as one with the Special Constables (Pensions) Regulations 1973 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Regulations”).\n(2) Notwithstanding Regulation 3(3) of the principal Regulations, in these Regulations “totally disabled” means incapable by reason of the disablement in question of earning any money in any employment and “total disablement” shall be construed accordingly.\n(3) In the case of a person who is totally disabled, Regulation 13(1) of the Police Pensions Regulations 1973, as applied by Regulation 3(2) of the principal Regulations, shall have effect, for the purposes of these Regulations, as if the reference to “that disablement being … likely to be permanent” were a reference to the total disablement of that person being likely to be permanent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1973/431, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1973/428, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/159/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:10.670344+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."
}