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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004/schedule-11/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/20",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Police Authority may call on a senior officer, in the interests of efficiency or effectiveness, to retire or to resign.\n(2) The approval of the Secretary of State is required before the Police Authority may call on a senior officer to retire or to resign.\n(3) Before seeking the approval of the Secretary of State, the Police Authority must—\n(a) give the senior officer a notice of its intention to call on him to retire or to resign and an explanation of its grounds for doing so;\n(b) give the senior officer an opportunity of making representations, including an opportunity of making representations in person; and\n(c) consider any representations made by or on behalf of the senior officer.\n(4) A senior officer who is called on to retire or to resign must retire or resign with effect from—\n(a) such date as the Police Authority may specify; or\n(b) such earlier date as may be agreed between him and the Police Authority.\n(5) Oral notice is not effective for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 1 in force at 1.3.2005 by S.I. 2005/442, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}