{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-promotion-regulations-2013/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-promotion-regulations-2013/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/39",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Service of Scotland (Promotion) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-promotion-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Qualifying diploma",
  "text": "(1) The qualifying diploma is the Diploma in Police Service Leadership and Management, obtained on or after 1st April 2013.\n(2) A constable is eligible to take the course to obtain the qualifying diploma (“the qualifying diploma course”), only if the constable has—\n(a) completed the required period of probation in the rank of constable; and\n(b) successfully applied for a place on the course.\n(3) For the purpose of paragraph (2)(a)—\n(a) “required period of probation” means the period of probation determined under regulation 8 of the Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013;\n(b) a constable is taken to have completed the required period of probation if the constable has completed such period of probation, in any police force specified in regulation 8(4) of those Regulations, as is required of constables appointed to the rank of constable in that police force.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The Scottish Ministers must determine—\n(a) the application process and procedures in relation to the qualifying diploma course; and\n(b) the content and format of the syllabus upon which the qualifying diploma course will be based.\n(6) The Scottish Ministers may, in making a determination under paragraph (5), confer such functions on the Authority or the chief constable in relation to that determination as they think fit.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(4) omitted (1.3.2021) by virtue of The Police Service of Scotland (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/453), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I.2013/35."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/39/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:07.413195+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."
}