{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 37 (prohibition on employment of police) substitute—\n“Prohibition on employment of police in fire-fighting\n37 (1) No member of a police force may be employed by a fire and rescue authority or a relevant chief constable for the purpose of—\n(a) extinguishing fires, or\n(b) protecting life and property in the event of fires.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the exercise of functions under section 7 (fire-fighting) by—\n(a) a relevant chief constable, or\n(b) a deputy chief constable to whom such functions have been delegated by a relevant chief constable.\n(3) In this section “relevant chief constable” means the chief constable of a police force for a police area to whom functions of a fire and rescue authority have been delegated under an order under section 4H.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 183"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 3.4.2017 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2017/399, reg. 2, Sch. para. 38"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:52.204895+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."
}