{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-senior-police-members-appeals-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-senior-police-members-appeals-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/640",
  "legislation_title": "The NCIS (Senior Police Members) (Appeals) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-senior-police-members-appeals-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order:\n“the 1997 Act” means the Police Act 1997;\n“disciplinary hearing” means a hearing pursuant to provisions made in regulations under section 37 of the 1997 Act;\n“NCIS” means the National Criminal Intelligence Service established under section 2 of the 1997 Act;\n“NCIS appeals tribunal” means a tribunal established under article 6 of this Order;\n“NCIS Service Authority” means the Service Authority established under section 1 of the 1997 Act;\n“NCIS service fund” means the fund maintained by the NCIS Service Authority under section 16 of the 1997 Act;\n“National Crime Squad” means the National Crime Squad established under section 48 of the 1997 Act;\n“police force” means a force maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996, and\n“member of a police force” shall be construed accordingly;\n“referred matter” means a matter referred to the Police Complaints Authority pursuant to regulations made under section 39 of the 1997 Act;\n“senior police member” means the Director General and persons appointed under section 9(2)(a) of the 1997 Act as police members of NCIS.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 16."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/640/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:35:16.754147+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."
}