{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "References to transfers",
  "text": "(1) Except where the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a member of a police force voluntarily transferring from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to such a member leaving a force for the purpose of joining another force and joining that other force, where—\n(a) he left the force first mentioned in this regulation on or after 1st January 1963 for the purposes aforesaid with, in the case of the chief officer of police, the consent of the police authority;\n(b) he left the force first mentioned in this regulation before 1st January 1963 for the purposes aforesaid with the written consent of the chief officer of police.\n(2) Except where the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a member of a police force being statutorily transferred from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to such a member being transferred—\n(a) by or under the Local Government Act 1933, the Police Act 1946, the Local Government Act 1958, the London Government Act 1963, the Police Act 1964 (including that Act as amended by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994), the Local Government Act 1972or the Local Government Act 1992;\n(b) in the case of a person who was a member of the River Tyne police force, under the Harbours Act 1964).\n(3) Except where the context otherwise requires, a reference in these Regulations to a member of a police force transferring from one force to another shall be construed as a reference to his either voluntarily so transferring or being statutorily so transferred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1933 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1946 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1958 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1963 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1994 c. 29; the relevent amendment is made by section 14 of the 1994 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1992 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1964 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/215/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:38.937189+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."
}