{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2020/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Appeals Tribunals Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2020",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "The “relevant person” for the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 6 to the 1996 Act",
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 6 to the 1996 Act (police appeals tribunals) , “relevant person” means—\n(a) the local policing body for—\n(i) the police force of which a police officer who wishes to appeal to a tribunal, or the appellant (where the appellant is a police officer), is a member, or\n(ii) the police force for the police area for which—\n(aa) a police officer who wishes to appeal to a tribunal, or\n(bb) the appellant (where the appellant is a police officer),\nis appointed as a special constable, or\n(b) where the body referred to in paragraph (a) has, under rule 7, delegated functions in relation to the administration of the appeal to another local policing body, that other body.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 6 to the Police Act 1996 were amended by section 31 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 8 in force at 1.2.2020, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:06.674662+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."
}