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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2013/schedule-3/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/602",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2013",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions: arrangements with British Transport Police Force",
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) apply to any arrangement—\n(a) made under section 11 of the 1967 Act between the chief constable of the British Transport Police Force and the chief constable of a police force;\n(b) subsisting immediately before the relevant day; and\n(c) by virtue of which assistance is given from the resources of the British Transport Police Force to that police force.\n(2) An arrangement to which this sub-paragraph applies is to be treated, on and after the relevant day, as an arrangement made under article 5 of this Order between the chief constable of the British Transport Police Force and the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland.\n(3) Any constable of the British Transport Police Force provided for the assistance of a police force in pursuance of an arrangement to which this sub-paragraph applies—\n(a) is, on and after the relevant day, provided for the assistance of the Police Service of Scotland; and\n(b) while providing such assistance—\n(i) is under the direction and control of the chief constable of that Service; and\n(ii) has all the powers and privileges of a constable of that Service.\n(4) Sub-paragraphs (5) and (6) apply to any arrangement—\n(a) made under section 11 of the 1967 Act between the chief constable of a police force and the chief constable of the British Transport Police Force;\n(b) subsisting immediately before the relevant day; and\n(c) by virtue of which assistance is given from the resources of that police force to the British Transport Police Force.\n(5) An arrangement to which this sub-paragraph applies is to be treated, on and after the relevant day, as an arrangement made under article 6 of this Order between the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland and the chief constable of the British Transport Police Force.\n(6) Any constable of a police force provided for the assistance of the British Transport Police Force in pursuance of an arrangement to which this sub-paragraph applies continues, on and after the relevant day—\n(a) to be provided for the assistance of the British Transport Police Force;\n(b) to be under the direction and control of the chief constable of that Force while providing such assistance; and\n(c) to have all the powers and privileges of a constable of that Force for that purpose.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 14 in force at 1.4.2013, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 11 was amended by the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (c.24), Schedule 7, paragraph 2, and S.I. 2004/1573, article 12(1)(a)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/602/schedule/3/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:56.671742+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."
}