{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/regulation-39",
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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/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Reckoning by constables of service in certain constabularies",
  "text": "(1) A member of the rank of constable shall be entitled to reckon, for the purposes of pay for that rank, any period of service in a constabulary mentioned in paragraph (2).\n(2) The constabularies referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) the Ministry of Defence Police, that is to say the force established by section 1 of the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987 or, before the coming into force of that Act, comprising constables appointed under section 3 of the Special Constables Act 1923 on the nomination of the Defence Council or, before 1st April 1964, of the Admiralty, Army Council or Air Council;\n(b) the Port of Tilbury London Limited’s police force, that is to say the force of constables appointed under section 154 of the Port of London Act 1968.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1923 c. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1968 c. xxxii"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/95",
      "affecting_title": "Police Service of Northern Ireland Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/473/regulation/39",
    "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."
}