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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Appointment of chief constable",
  "text": "Without prejudice to section 4(2) of the 1964 Act or, on or after 1st April 1995, section 5A(1) of that Actand regulations 11 and 12, no person shall be appointed to the office of chief constable in a police force unless he has at least 2 years' experience in some other force in the rank of superintendent or a higher rank.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 5A(1) was inserted by section 5 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2013",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/547",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2013",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/215/regulation/13",
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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."
}