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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-recruitment-northern-ireland-regulations-2001/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/140",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Recruitment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-recruitment-northern-ireland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Pool of qualified candidates",
  "text": "(1) All candidates for appointment as police trainees who satisfy the requirements of regulation 2(2) shall be placed in a pool of qualified candidates.\n(2) The Chief Constable shall appoint police trainees from a pool of qualified candidates referred to in paragraph (1) for the purposes of section 39 of the Act in accordance with section 46 of the Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 5.4.2001, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/314",
      "affecting_title": "Police Trainee (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/314",
      "affecting_title": "Police Trainee (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/140/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:12:06.704973+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."
}