{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/527",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Reckoning by constables of service in certain constabularies",
  "text": "(1) A member of a police force of the rank of constable shall be entitled to reckon for the purposes of pay for that rank any period of service in a constabulary mentioned in paragraph (2).\n(2) The constabularies referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) the Ministry of Defence Police, that is to say the force established by section 1 of the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987 or, before the coming into force of that Act, comprising constables appointed under section 3 of the Special Constables Act 1923 on the nomination of the Defence Council or, before 1st April 1964, of the Admiralty, Army Council or Air Council;\n(b) the Port of Tilbury Constabulary or, before the coming into force of the Port of Tilbury Transfer Scheme 1991 Confirmation Order 1992 , the Port of London Authority’s police force, that is to say the force of constables appointed under section 154 of the Port of London Act 1968 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1987 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1923 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/284."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1968 c. xxxii."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/527/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:34.247026+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."
}