Police (Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1987
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1987/341 |
| Year | 1987 |
1987 No. 341
POLICE
The Police (Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1987
Made 2nd March 1987
Laid before Parliament 9th March 1987
Coming into force 17th March 1987
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 1, 3, 4 and 6 of the Police Pensions Act 1976,1and after consultation with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, I hereby, with the consent of the Treasury2, make the following Regulations:—
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Injury Benefit) (Amendment) Regulations 1987.
2. These Regulations shall come into force on 17th March 1987 and shall have effect as from 25th November 1982.
3.—(1) The Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 19873shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Regulation.
(2) In Regulation 4(1)(c), the words“on or after that date and”shall be omitted.
(3) In Regulation 5(2)—
(a)
(a) for the words“a duly qualified medical practitioner under Regulation 71”there shall be substituted the words“a medical authority under Regulation 71, 72 or 73”; and
(b)
(b) at the end there shall be added the words“and where this Regulation so applies it shall apply to the exclusion of Regulation 4”.
(4) In Regulation 8, for paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—
“3 No payment in respect of a gratuity under these Regulations shall be made to a person unless he has given to the police authority a written undertaking that if he recovers any damages or compensation in respect of the death or disability to which the gratuity relates he will inform them thereof and, unless the damages or compensation have been taken into account in pursuance of paragraph (1), will pay to the police authority such sum as they may demand not exceeding—
(a) where the amount of the payment made by the police authority is less than the net amount of the damages or compensation, the amount of that payment;
(b) where the amount of that payment is not less than the net amount of the damages or compensation, an amount equal to the net amount of the damages or compensation;
and, in this paragraph,“the net amount”in relation to damages or compensation recovered by any person means the amount of the damages or compensation after deducting tax payable in the United Kingdom or elsewhere to which the damages or compensation are subject.
4 The police authority shall not demand any payment in pursuance of such an undertaking as is mentioned in paragraph (3)—
(a) after the death of the person to whom the payment in respect of a gratuity under these Regulations was made, or
(b) after the expiration of 2 years from the date on which the final determination of the amount of the damages or compensation first came to the knowledge of the police authority.”.
(5) Regulation 9 shall be omitted.
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