{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Probationary service in the rank of constable",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a constable appointed in the rank of constable, other than a constable who has served with a police force having completed the required period of probation therein, is on probation for such period as the Scottish Ministers must determine in respect of such appointments.\n(2) A determination under paragraph (1) may provide for the chief constable to have discretion to determine the required period in a particular case.\n(3) For the purposes of a determination under paragraph (1), the periods to be counted or disregarded in reckoning service are such as may be determined by the Scottish Ministers.\n(4) In this regulation “police force” means—\n(a) a police force maintained under section 2(1) of the Police Act 1996;\n(b) the metropolitan police force;\n(c) the City of London police force;\n(d) the Police Service of Northern Ireland;\n(e) the British Transport Police Force;\n(f) the States of Jersey Police Force;\n(g) the salaried police force of the Island of Guernsey; and\n(h) the Isle of Man Constabulary.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.4.2013, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.16; section 2 was amended by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13), section 99 and Schedule 16, paragraph 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/35/regulation/8",
    "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."
}