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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1501",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976 (“the principal Regulations”) and come into force on 27th September 1988.\nRegulation 4 provides for a minimum of 4 hours' compensation at the appropriate rate when an officer is recalled to duty on a rostered rest day or a public holiday, following an earlier period of duty on that day.\nRegulation 5 provides that the paid period of maternity leave is to be the first 3 months.\nRegulations 6 and 7 amend the provisions relating to refreshment, subsistence and lodging allowances.\nRegulation 8 and the Schedule take account of agreed changes in policewomen’s uniform.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1501/note",
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  "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."
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