{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-performance-regulations-2014/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-performance-regulations-2014/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/67",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Service of Scotland (Performance) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-performance-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Suspension of improvement and validity periods",
  "text": "(1) An improvement period or validity period must—\n(a) be suspended where the constable is absent from duty for a continuous period of 4 weeks or more; and\n(b) resume when the constable returns to duty.\n(2) But paragraph (1) does not apply where the constable’s absence is the subject of the proceedings under these Regulations.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 1.4.2014, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/67/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:35:55.200349+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."
}