{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-federation-england-and-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-federation-england-and-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1140",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Federation (England and Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-federation-england-and-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "New members",
  "text": "(1) The Federation must—\n(a) notify each new member of a police force below the rank of superintendent, ... each new police cadet in training with a view to becoming a member of a police force and each new special constable appointed for a police area, that the member, cadet or special constable may opt to join the Federation;\n(b) notify each member of a police force below the rank of superintendent, ... each police cadet in training with a view to becoming a member of a police force and each special constable appointed for a police area, who wishes to join the Federation that—\n(i) the member, cadet or special constable may opt to pay voluntary subscriptions to the Federation, and\n(ii) the payment of such subscriptions will entitle the member, cadet or special constable to the provision of advice and representation by the Federation in accordance with any conditions set out in Federation rules in relation to the specified matters mentioned in regulation 5(2).\n(2) The notifications required under paragraph (1) must be given as soon as reasonably practicable, and for notifications under paragraph (1)(a), within one month after the date on which any Federation body learns of the new member or police cadet.\n(3) Nothing in this regulation requires the Federation—\n(a) to notify existing members of the Federation that they may opt to join the Federation, or\n(b) to notify existing members of the Federation who are already paying voluntary subscriptions to the Federation that they may opt to pay such subscriptions.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), an “existing member” is a person who is already a member of the Federation when these Regulations come into force.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(1)(a) omitted (28.6.2022) by virtue of The Special Constables (Membership of the Police Federation etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/505), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1)(a) inserted (28.6.2022) by The Special Constables (Membership of the Police Federation etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/505), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1)(a) substituted (28.6.2022) by The Special Constables (Membership of the Police Federation etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/505), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(1)(b) omitted (28.6.2022) by virtue of The Special Constables (Membership of the Police Federation etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/505), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1)(b) inserted (28.6.2022) by The Special Constables (Membership of the Police Federation etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/505), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1)(b) substituted (28.6.2022) by The Special Constables (Membership of the Police Federation etc.) (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/505), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 31.12.2017, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1140/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:06:03.500460+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."
}