{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/attestation-of-constables-welsh-language-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2312",
  "legislation_title": "The Attestation of Constables (Welsh Language) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/attestation-of-constables-welsh-language-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following form of words in Welsh may be used as an alternative to the words set out in Schedule 4 to the Police Act 1996 in the case of attestation as a member of a police force or a special constable in the police areas of Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales or South Wales—\n“Rwyf i…o…yn datgan ac yn cadarnhau yn ddifrifol ac yn ddiffuant y byddaf yn gwasanaethu'r Frenhines yn dda ac yn gywir yn fy swydd o heddwas (heddferch), yn deg, yn onest, yn ddiwyd ac yn ddiduedd, gan gynnal hawliau dynol sylfaenol a chan roddi'r un parch i bob person; ac y byddaf i, hyd eithaf fy ngallu, yn achosi i'r heddwch gael ei gadw a'i ddiogelu ac yn atal pob trosedd yn erbyn pobl ac eiddo; a thra byddaf yn parhau i ddal y swydd ddywededig y byddaf i, hyd eithaf fy sgil a'm gwybodaeth, yn cyflawni'r holl ddyletswyddau sy'n gysylltiedig â hi yn ffyddlon yn unol â'r gyfraith.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 16. Section 29 of the 1996 Act requires a member of a police force or special constable for a police area to be attested as a constable by making a declaration in the form set out in Schedule 4 to the Act. Schedule 4 is substituted by section 83 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The term “police area” has the meaning ascribed to it in section 101 of the Police Act 1996 by virtue of Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2312/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:49:36.887359+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."
}