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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-authority-regulations-2008/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-authority-regulations-2008/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/630",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Authority Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-authority-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/39",
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  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Functions of selection panel – short-listing",
  "text": "In exercising their functions a selection panel shall have regard to the desirability of ensuring that, so far as reasonably practicable, the persons nominated by them under regulation 38—\n(a) represent the interests of a wide range of people within the community in the police area of the police authority, and\n(b) include persons with skills, knowledge or experience which are under represented among the existing members of the police authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/421",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Authority (Community Engagement and Membership) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/421",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Authority (Community Engagement and Membership) Regulations 2010"
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      "affecting_title": "The Police Authority (Community Engagement and Membership) Regulations 2010"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/630/regulation/39",
    "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."
}