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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-northern-ireland-reserve-part-time-amendment-regulations-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2009/393",
  "legislation_title": "Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve (Part-Time) (Amendment) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-northern-ireland-reserve-part-time-amendment-regulations-2009",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations amend the Police Service of Northern Ireland Reserve (Part-Time) Regulations 2004.\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 6, in response to the 8th Report of the Joint Committee of Statutory Instruments for the Session 2003-2004, limiting the purposes for which restrictions may be placed on the private life of members of the PSNI Reserve.\nRegulation 3 clarifies the rules about the business interests which are prohibited for Police Officers (Part-Time) serving in the PSNI Reserve and their relatives. Similar amendments have recently been made for police officers in the PSNI, police trainees, and police reserve trainees.\nRegulation 4 provides for DNA samples to be taken from Police Officers (Part-Time) serving in the PSNI Reserve.\nRegulation 5 corrects defective drafting in regulation 17(2), in response to the 8th Report of the Joint Committee of Statutory Instruments for the Session 2003-2004.\nRegulation 6 removes an obsolete reference from regulation 20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/393/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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