# The Special Constables (Pensions) Regulations 1973, Regulation 3: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations the expression “the principal Regulations” means the Police Pensions Regulations 1973.
(2) Regulations 3, 4, 10, 12(2) and (4), 13(1), (3) and (4), 14, 17(2) and 18 of the principal Regulations shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations, subject to any necessary adaptations, as they apply for the purposes of the said Regulations.
(3) Subject to Regulation 13(3) of the principal Regulations, in these Regulations disablement means inability occasioned by infirmity of mind or body, in the case of a special constable, to follow his ordinary employment or, in the case of a child, to earn a living.
(4) (a) Where a police area is or has been combined with another police area, the combined police area of which the first named area for the time being forms part and the police authority and the police fund therefor shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be deemed to be the same area, authority and fund as the first named area and the authority and fund therefor.
(b) Where a police area is or has been divided, in relation to any special constable who is transferred by the instrument effecting the division from the divided area to another police area, the other area and the police authority and police fund therefor shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be deemed to be the same area, authority and fund as the divided area and the authority and fund therefor.
(c) Where a police area is or has been combined or divided as aforesaid, any special constable who is transferred, by the instrument effecting the combination or division, from that police area to another police area shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be deemed to have been appointed a special constable for the area to which he is transferred on the day on which he was last appointed a special constable for the police area first mentioned in this sub-paragraph.
(d) In relation to a special constable who has served as such on or after 23rd May 1966, a reference in this paragraph to the division of a police area includes a reference to the transfer of part of a police area, on or after 1st April 1966, on the date on which an order affecting the area, made under section 140 of the Local Government Act 1933 or under Part II of the Local Government Act 1958, comes into force.
(5) For the purposes of these Regulations a reference in the principal Regulations to a continuous period of service shall be construed as a reference to a period during which a special constable holds or held that office in the police area for which he is or was appointed; and any reference in the said Regulations to retirement, or to ceasing to be a member of a police force, shall be construed as a reference to the termination of such a period.
(6) For the purposes of these Regulations a reference in the principal Regulations to the Police Pensions Regulations 1971 shall be construed as a reference to those Regulations as applied by the S.I. 1971/233 Special Constables (Pensions) Regulations 1971.
(7) For the purposes of these Regulations a reference to a special constable is a reference to a special constable appointed under section 16 of the Police Act 1964 and, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a reference to a person who has been a special constable.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/431/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/special-constables-pensions-regulations-1973/regulation-3
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