{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reserve-trainee-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/2",
  "legislation_title": "Police Reserve Trainee Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reserve-trainee-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nSection 37(3) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 requires a person to serve as a police reserve trainee before he or she can be appointed as a member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve. These regulations make provision about the government, administration and conditions of service of police reserve trainees.\nRegulation 2 prescribes the length of the period which police reserve trainees must serve, and the other conditions with which police trainees must comply, before they can be appointed as reserve constables.\nRegulation 3 makes provision about the restrictions which are, or may be, imposed on the private lives of police reserve trainees.\nRegulation 4 makes provision about certain business interests which may be prohibited for police reserve trainees.\nRegulations 5 to 8 make provision about the pay and allowances of police reserve trainees.\nRegulation 9 makes provision for the termination of the period of service of a police trainee.\nRegulation 10 confers power on the Chief Constable to make standing orders about police reserve trainees.\nRegulation 11 allows the Chief Constable to delegate his functions under the regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/2/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:59:38.490080+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."
}