{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-authority-regulations-2008/regulation-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-authority-regulations-2008/regulation-38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/630",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Authority Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-authority-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Functions of selection panel – short-listing",
  "text": "(1) Where appointments to a police authority are to be made under regulation 9 the selection panel for the authority’s area shall nominate persons willing to be candidates for appointment.\n(2) Unless there are only a smaller number of persons willing to be candidates who are not disqualified from being members, the number of persons to be nominated by a selection panel under this regulation on any occasion shall be a number twice the number of appointments to be made under regulation 9.\n(3) Unless there are only a smaller number of lay justices willing to be candidates who are not disqualified from being members, where by virtue of regulation 11 the appointments to be made under regulation 9 must include the appointment of a person who is a lay justice then the persons to be nominated by a selection panel under this regulation on any occasion shall include two persons who are a lay justice.\n(4) A person shall not be nominated under this regulation in relation to a police authority if, by virtue of regulation 14, 15, 16 or 17 he is disqualified from being appointed as a member of the police authority under regulation 9.\n(5) The persons nominated under this regulation shall form the short-list of persons for the purposes of regulation 9.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/630/regulation/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:40.302354+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."
}