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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2018/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1191",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make various amendments to the Police Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/527).\nRegulation 4 removes the requirement that former officers must re-join a police force within 5 years if they wish to retain their previous rank. Instead, former officers may now rejoin a force even if their previous service ended more than 5 years previously, and they may be appointed to a rank decided by the chief officer making the appointment.\nRegulations 5 to 8 make consequential amendments.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1191/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:52:09.902436+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."
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