# The Special Constables (Injury Benefit) Regulations 1987, Regulation 4: Injury Benefit


The Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 1987 shall apply, subject to the necessary modifications, in relation to:
(a) a person who—
(i) receives or received an injury without his own default in the execution of his duty, whether before, on or after 25th November 1982; and
(ii) on or after that date ceases or has ceased to hold office as a special constable; and
(iii) on or after that date and within 12 months of so receiving that injury, becomes or became totally and permanently disabled as a result thereof; and
(b) a special constable who—
(i) receives or received an injury without his own default in the execution of his duty, whether before, on or after 25th November 1982; and
(ii) was holding office as such on or after that date; and
(iii) within 12 months of so receiving that injury, dies or has died as a result thereof,
as they apply in the case of a person such as is mentioned in Regulation 4(1) or, as the case may be, Regulation 5(1) of those Regulations, and as if references in those Regulations to any of the provisions of the Police Pensions Regulations 1973 included references to those provisions as applied in relation to special constables by the principal Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/159/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/special-constables-injury-benefit-regulations-1987/regulation-4
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