{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/473",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Contents of personal records",
  "text": "(1) The chief constable shall cause a personal record of each member to be kept.\n(2) The personal record shall contain—\n(a) a personal description of the member;\n(b) particulars of his place and date of birth;\n(c) particulars of his marriage (if any) and of his children (if any);\n(d) a record of his service (if any) in any branch of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces or in the civil service;\n(e) a record of his service (if any) in any other police force (including service in the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve) and of his transfers (if any) from one police force to another;\n(f) a record of whether he passed or failed to pass any qualifying examination at which he was a candidate;\n(g) a record of his service in the force including particulars of all promotions, postings, removals, injuries received, periods of illness, commendations, rewards, punishments other than cautions and the date of his ceasing to be a member with the reason, cause or manner thereof:\nProvided that—\n(i) a punishment of a fine or of a reprimand shall be expunged after 3 years free from punishment, other than a caution;\n(ii) any other punishment shall be expunged after 5 years free from punishment, other than a caution;\nbut, in the case of a period free from punishment other than a caution which expired before 1st July 1989, only if the member so requests.\n(3) A member shall, if he so requests, be entitled to inspect his personal record.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/316",
      "affecting_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Unsatisfactory Performance) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/316",
      "affecting_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Unsatisfactory Performance) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/316",
      "affecting_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary (Unsatisfactory Performance) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/95",
      "affecting_title": "Police Service of Northern Ireland Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2004/122",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Service of Northern Ireland (Secondment) (Garda Síochána) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/473/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:07.933033+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."
}