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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-pensions-amendments-scotland-regulations-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2013/184",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Reform (Pensions Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-pensions-amendments-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police\nPensions\nMade 29th May 2013\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 31st May 2013\nComing into force 1st July 2013\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Police Pensions Act 1976 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 1(1) of that Act, they have consulted with the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c.35. Section 1 was amended by section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c.10), section 1(1) of the Police and Firemen’s Pensions Act 1997 (c.52) and paragraph 129 of Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13). The functions of the Secretary of State under the Act as regards Scotland are transferred to Scottish Ministers by article 2 of and Schedule 1 to S.I. 1999/1750. The requirement for consent by the Minister for the Civil Service under section 1 of the Act was transferred to the Treasury by virtue of S.I. 1986/1670 and such consent is not required in the exercise by the Scottish Ministers of the transferred functions by virtue of S.I. 1999/1750 and section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46). See also the definition of “police force” in section 11(3) of the Police Pensions Act 1976, as relevantly amended by paragraph 12(3)(d)(i) of Schedule 2 to S.I. 2013/602."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 61 of the Police Act 1996 (c.16) and section 2(3) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c.10), which substituted the Police Negotiating Board for the Police Council for the United Kingdom."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/184/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."
}