{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-descriptions-of-service-order-2012/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-descriptions-of-service-order-2012/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2954",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Descriptions of Service) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-descriptions-of-service-order-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police, England And Wales\nPensions, England And Wales\nMade 26th November 2012\nLaid before Parliament 28th November 2012\nComing into force 21st December 2012\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11A(1) of the Police Pensions Act 1976 and section 97A(1) of the Police Act 1996.\nIn accordance with section 63(3) of the Police Act 1996, the Secretary of State supplied a draft of this Order to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and took their representations into consideration before the Order was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 35. Section 11A was inserted by section 10(2) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), and extends to England and Wales."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 16. Again section 97A was inserted by section 10(2) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 and extends to England and Wales."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 63(3) was amended by section 10(3) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 so as to apply to an order made under section 11A of the Police Pensions Act 1976 or section 97A of the Police Act 1996."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2954/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:18.037398+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."
}