Regulation 3

For regulation 5(1) of the Instrument of 1966 (which relates to a widow's augmented award where her husband's death results from an attack or an injury received in effecting an arrest or preventing an escape or rescue) there shall be substituted the following provision :—

“5

(1)

This regulation shall apply to a widow of a special constable whose death is the result of an injury received without his own default in the execution of his duty where—

(a)

he was attacked by a person or persons in a manner which, in the opinion of the police authority, was intrinsically likely to cause death and death ensued on or after 2nd June 1949, as a result of the attack, or

(b)

the injury was received in the course of duties performed, in the opinion of the police authority, for the immediate purpose of effecting an arrest or of preventing an escape or rescue from legal custody and death ensued on or after 1st August 1964, or

(c)

the injury was received in the course of duties performed, in the opinion of the police authority—

(i)

for the immediate purpose of saving the life of another person or of preventing loss of human life, and

(ii)

in circumstances in which there was an intrinsic likelihood of his receiving a fatal injury,

and death ensued on or after 1st January 1970.”