{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-and-social-responsibility-act-2011/section-16",
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  "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": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Appointment of persons not employed by elected local policing bodies",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where an elected local policing body is required or authorised by any Act—\n(a) to appoint a person to a specified post in the body, or\n(b) to designate a person as having specified duties or responsibilities.\n(2) The elected local policing body may appoint or designate a person whether or not the person is already a member of staff of the body.\n(3) Subsection (2) has effect in spite of any provision to the contrary in the Act that is mentioned in subsection (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 applied (with modifications) (8.5.2017) by The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions to the Mayor) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/470), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 16 modified (20.12.2023) by The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1432), arts. 1(2), 33(2), Sch. 5 para. 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 16.1.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 22.11.2012 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/13/section/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."
}