{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2012/8",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Right to appeal to the First-tier Tribunal",
  "text": "(1) A constable may appeal to the First-tier Tribunal against any decision to dismiss the constable, or to demote the constable in rank, taken in pursuance of regulations made under section 48.\n(2) An appeal is competent only if the constable has exhausted any available process of review or appeal provided for in such regulations.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 56(1) substituted (29.12.2025) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions and Members of the Police Appeals Tribunal) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/378), reg. 1(1), sch. 2 para. 1(2)(a) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 56(3) repealed (29.12.2025) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions and Members of the Police Appeals Tribunal) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/378), reg. 1(1), sch. 2 para. 1(2)(b) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 56 heading substituted (29.12.2025) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions and Members of the Police Appeals Tribunal) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/378), reg. 1(1), sch. 2 para. 1(2)(d) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56(1)(2) in force at 1.4.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/5",
      "affecting_title": "Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/5",
      "affecting_title": "Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted by SSI 2025/378 Sch. 2 para. 1(2)(aa) (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/321",
      "affecting_title": "The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions and Members of the Police Appeals Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/8/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:45.019055+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."
}