{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1987/schedule-8/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1987/schedule-8/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/851",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1987",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of regulation 60 and this Schedule the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—\n“authorised use” means the use, authorised under regulation 60, of a motor vehicle owned by the member of a police force concerned for the purposes of his duties as a member of that force or, where he has been statutorily transferred from one force to another force, as a member of either of those forces, and “period of authorised use” means the period during which such use is authorised;\n“cyclinder capacity” means the cylinder capacity of the engine of a vehicle calculated in accordance with the regulations from time to time in force under the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971;\n“motor bicycle” means a mechanically propelled bicycle (including a motor scooter, a bicycle with an attachment for propelling it by mechanical power and a mechanically propelled bicycle used for drawing a sidecar);\n“motor car” means a mechanically propelled vehicle other than a motor bicycle and, accordingly, includes a mechanically propelled tricycle;\n“year” means a period of twelve months beginning on such date as may be determined by the police authority;\nand a reference to a motor vehicle owned by a member of a police force is a reference to such a vehicle kept and used by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/851/schedule/8/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:26:54.657928+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."
}