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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012/section-98",
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  "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/98",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Transitional and transitory provision",
  "text": "(1) A person mentioned in subsection (3) must provide the Authority with such information and assistance as the Authority may reasonably require.\n(2) A person mentioned in subsection (3) must provide the chief constable with such information and assistance as the chief constable may reasonably require.\n(3) Those persons are—\n(a) a police authority within the meaning of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (c.77) (“the 1967 Act”),\n(b) a joint police board constituted by an amalgamation scheme made under the 1967 Act,\n(c) a chief constable of a police force maintained under the 1967 Act,\n(d) the Scottish Police Services Authority.\n(4) Schedule 4 makes provision about the period before the Police Service is established.\n(5) Schedule 5 contains provision about the transfer of constables, inspectors of constabulary, police cadets, staff, property, rights, liabilities and obligations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 98 partly in force; s. 98(4) in force at 8.8.2012 see s. 129(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 98(1)-(3) (5) in force at 1.10.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/253, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/8/section/98",
    "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."
}