{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-no2-regulations-1995/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-no2-regulations-1995/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/596",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-no2-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Appointment of chief constable",
  "text": "For regulation 8 of the principal Regulations, there shall be substituted:\n“Appointment of chief constable\n8 Subject to section 4(1) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967, no person shall be appointed as chief constable of a police force unless for a period of not less than two years he holds or has held the rank of assistant chief constable or above—\n(a) in some other police force;\n(b) on relevant service within the meaning of section 38A of the said Act of 1967; or\n(c) partly in one of the capacities described in paragraphs (a) and (b) above and partly in another.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 38A was inserted by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994, section 60."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/596/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:14:23.447491+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."
}