{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-promotion-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-promotion-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/260",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Promotion) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-promotion-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 10th February 1988\nLaid before Parliament 25th February 1988\nComing into force 17th March 1988\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 26 of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and having submitted a draft of the Regulations to the Police Advisory Board for Scotland and considered representations made by them in accordance with section 26(9) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 77; section 26(1A) and (10) were inserted by section 111 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60); section 26(9) was amended by section 2(4) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/260/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."
}