{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2372",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Police Regulations 2003",
  "text": "In regulation 12—\n(a) in the heading omit “in the rank of constable”;\n(b) for paragraph (1), substitute—\n“(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a member of a police force—\n(a) appointed in the rank of constable, other than such a member who transferred to the force from another police force having completed the required period of probation therein; or\n(b) in the case of a DE superintendent, appointed in the rank of superintendent,\nshall be on probation for such period as the Secretary of State shall determine in respect of such appointments.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2372/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:48.695967+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."
}