{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/schedule-15/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/schedule-15/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/13",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A transfer scheme may provide for a person who—\n(a) is employed by the new policing body, and\n(b) would otherwise, by the operation of the scheme, become—\n(i) a member of the civilian staff of the police force, or\n(ii) a member of staff of a local authority,\nnot to become such a member of staff if the person gives notice objecting to the operation of the scheme in relation to the person.\n(2) A person who would (but for this sub-paragraph) be treated as being dismissed by the operation of a transfer scheme (whether by an enactment or otherwise) is to be treated as not being so dismissed.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) does not apply to a person who, by virtue of sub-paragraph (1), does not become a member of staff.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 16 in force at 16.1.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 16 in force at 22.11.2012 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/13/schedule/15/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:27.716276+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."
}