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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-policing-bodies-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provision-order-2012/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2733",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Policing Bodies (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-policing-bodies-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provision-order-2012",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provision in relation to police staff and politically restricted posts",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to a person who becomes a police civilian member of the staff of a new policing body by virtue of paragraph 7(7)(b) of Schedule 15 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.\n(2) Section 1 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (politically restricted posts) does not apply to the person for as long as the person continues to be a police civilian member of the staff of the new policing body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2733/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:14:58.431340+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."
}