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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-discipline-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2226",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Discipline) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-discipline-scotland-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 16th December 1987\nLaid before Parliament 11th January 1988\nComing into force 1st February 1988\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 26 of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after taking into consideration any recommendations made by the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom and having furnished the Board with a draft of these Regulations in accordance with section 2(1) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980, and after taking into consideration any representations made by the Joint Central Committee of the Police Federation for Scotland and such bodies and associations as appear to him to be representative of police authorities, chief constables and superintendents (including chief superintendents) respectively, following the submission of a draft of the Regulations in accordance with section 26(9) of the said Act of 1967, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 77; section 26(7) was amended by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60), Schedule 6, paragraph 32; section 26(9) was amended by the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10), section 2(4); section 26(1A) and (10) were inserted by section 111 of the said Act of 1984."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 10"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2226/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}