{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-federation-scotland-regulations-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2013/86",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Federation (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-federation-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police\nMade 26th February 2013\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 28th February 2013\nComing into force 1st April 2013\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 60 of the Police Act 1996 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 60(4) of that Act, the Scottish Ministers have consulted the three Central Committees of the Police Federation for Scotland, sitting together as a Joint Committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.16; section 60 was relevantly amended by paragraph 13(3) of schedule 7 to the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8). The functions of the Secretary of State, in or as regards Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/86/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."
}