{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/547",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Appointment of chief constable",
  "text": "For regulation 13 of the principal Regulations, there shall be substituted:\n“Appointment of chief constable\n13 (1) Subject to section 5A(1) of the Police Act 1964 and regulations 11 and 12, no person shall be appointed as chief constable of a police force unless for a period of not less than two years he holds or has held the rank of assistant chief constable or above—\n(a) in some other police force;\n(b) whilst engaged on relevant service within the meaning of section 53C(1) of the Police Act 1964; or\n(c) partly in one of the capacities described in paragraphs (a) and (b) above and partly in another.\n(2) In its application to the metropolitan police force and the City of London police force, paragraph (1) shall have effect as if the reference to assistant chief constable was to commander.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 5A(1) was inserted by section 5 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 53C was inserted by section 26 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/547/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:14:52.619376+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."
}