{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-defence-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-defence-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2001/139",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Defence (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-defence-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Civil Defence Act 1948;\n“the 1967 Act” means the Police (Scotland) Act 1967;\n“civil defence” means such forms of civil defence as may from time to time be recognised by the Scottish Ministers under section 5 of the Act as appropriate to be undertaken by police forces and their members;\n“civil defence functions” means functions conferred on police authorities by regulation 3 below;\n“government department” includes the Scottish Administration;\n“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“police authority” means–\n(i) a police authority for a local government area whose area is not included in a combined area by virtue of an amalgamation scheme made under section 19, 20 or 21B of the 1967 Act; or\n(ii) a joint police board within the meaning of the 1967 Act.\n“regular constable” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(2) of the 1967 Act;\n“special constable” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(2) of the 1967 Act; and\n“year” means a financial year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 77."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 19 was amended by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39) (“the 1994 Act”), Schedule 13; section 20 was substituted by the 1994 Act, section 35; and section 21B was inserted by the 1994 Act, section 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 3 was substituted by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), section 47(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/139/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:47:05.899621+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."
}