{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/48",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Justice Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 11A (appointment and removal of deputy chief constables) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) (police forces to have a deputy chief constable), for “a deputy chief constable” there is substituted “ one or more deputy chief constables ”.\n(3) For subsection (2) there is substituted—\n“(2) The appointment of a person to be a deputy chief constable of a police force shall be made, in accordance with regulations under section 50, by the police authority responsible for maintaining that force.\n(2A) Where the police authority responsible for maintaining a police force—\n(a) proposes to increase the number of deputy chief constables that the force has, or\n(b) proposes to appoint a particular person to be a deputy chief constable,\nit may do so only after consultation with the chief constable and subject to the approval of the Secretary of State.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/48/schedule/2/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:30.533055+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."
}