{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/527",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Part-time appointments",
  "text": "(1) ... A chief officer may ... appoint persons to perform part-time service in any rank.\n(2) In these Regulations a person appointed to perform part-time service includes a person appointed to share a job with another person.\n(3) A person appointed to perform part-time service may not be appointed to serve as a full-time member without his consent.\n(4) A person appointed to perform part-time service immediately after serving as a full-time member may give notice in writing of his intention to be re-appointed as a full-time member and shall be so appointed—\n(a) within 2 months of the date the notice is received by the local policing body, where the body has a suitable vacancy, or\n(b) except where sub-paragraph (a) applies, when 4 months have elapsed since the day the notice was received, or from an earlier date if reasonably practicable.\n(5) A person serving as a full-time member of a police force may not be appointed to perform part-time service without his consent.\n(6) In this regulation “full-time member” means a member appointed otherwise than under this regulation.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1) revoked (1.4.2006) by The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Consequential and Supplementary Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/594), art. 1, Sch. para. 34(2)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(1) omitted (29.12.2025) by virtue of The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1274), regs. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(4)(a) substituted (22.11.2012) by The Police (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2712), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(4)(a) substituted (16.1.2012 in relation to the Metropolitan police district; 22.11.2012 in relation to the other police areas in E.W.) by The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/3026), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 5(4)(a) substituted (16.1.2012 in relation to the Metropolitan police district; 22.11.2012 in relation to the other police areas in E.W.) by The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/3026), regs. 1(1), 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(4)(b) substituted (22.11.2012) by The Police (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2712), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 5(7) omitted (29.12.2025) by virtue of The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1274), regs. 1(1), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 5(8) revoked (1.4.2006) by The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Consequential and Supplementary Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/594), art. 1, Sch. para. 34(2)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/527/regulation/5",
    "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."
}