{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Part-time appointments",
  "text": "(1) The chief constable may ... appoint constables to perform part-time service in any rank.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) A constable appointed to perform part-time service may not be appointed to serve as a full-time constable without that constable’s consent.\n(4) A constable appointed to perform part-time service immediately after serving as a full-time constable may give notice in writing of that constable’s intention to be re-appointed as a full-time constable and is to be so appointed—\n(a) within one month of the date the notice is received by the chief constable, where the chief constable has a suitable vacancy; or\n(b) in all other cases, no later than 3 months after the day the notice was received.\n(5) A constable serving as a full-time constable may not be appointed to perform part-time service without that constable’s consent.\n(6) In this regulation “full-time constable” means a constable appointed otherwise than under this regulation.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (4.10.2024) by virtue of The Police Service of Scotland (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/179), regs. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2) omitted (4.10.2024) by virtue of The Police Service of Scotland (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/179), regs. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(7) omitted (4.10.2024) by virtue of The Police Service of Scotland (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/179), regs. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2013, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/35/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:41:10.479680+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."
}