{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-promotion-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-promotion-regulations-1996/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1685",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Promotion) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-promotion-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Temporary promotion",
  "text": "(1) A member of a police force ... who is required to perform the duties of a higher rank may, even if there is no vacancy for that rank, be promoted temporarily to it, but in the case of promotion to the rank of sergeant or inspector only if he is qualified for the promotion under regulation 3.\n(2) A member of a police force who is successful in the written paper under Part I of the qualifying assessment, and who has commenced the period of work-based assessment under Part II ... of the qualifying assessment, shall, at the commencement of the work-based assessment, be temporarily promoted to the rank of sergeant or inspector as the case may be.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 renumbered as reg. 6(1) (1.3.2005) by The Police (Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/178), regs. 1(1), 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6 revoked (1.4.2006) by The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Consequential and Supplementary Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/594), art. 1, Sch. para. 13(2)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2) inserted (1.3.2005) by The Police (Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/178), regs. 1(1), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(2) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of The Police (Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/453), regs. 1, 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.8.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1685/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:15.222918+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."
}