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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-efficiency-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/732",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Efficiency) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-efficiency-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Assistant Commissioner”, in relation to the metropolitan police force, means the assistant commissioner for the time being authorised under section 8 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1856;\n“countersigning officer” means a member of the police force concerned having supervisory responsibility and who is senior in rank to the reporting officer;\n“first interview” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 4;\n“inefficiency hearing” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 12(2);\n“interviewing officer” means the officer who conducts a first interview;\n“member concerned” means the member of a police force in respect of whom proceedings under these Regulations are, or are proposed to be, taken;\n“personnel officer” means a person employed under section 15 of the 1996 Act or a member of a police force who, in either case, has responsibility for personnel matters relating to members of the police force concerned;\n“police force concerned” means the police force of which the member concerned is a member;\n“reporting officer” means the member of the police force concerned who has the immediate supervisory responsibility for the member concerned;\n“second interview” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 8(2);\n“senior manager” means—\n(a) the officer who is for the time being the supervisory officer of the person who is, in relation to the member concerned, the countersigning officer; or\n(b) where the member concerned is of the rank of superintendent, his supervising officer;\n“the 1996 Act” means the Police Act 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a regulation shall be construed as a reference to a regulation contained in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1856 c. 2."
    }
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      "affecting_title": "The Police (Performance and Conduct) (Amendment: Metropolitan Police) Regulations 2011"
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    {
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    },
    {
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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