{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/regulation-55.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/473",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Dog handler’s allowance",
  "text": "(1) Where a dog owned by the Police Authority is kept and cared for by a member at his home, the member shall be paid a dog handler’s allowance in respect of the care accorded to the dog on the member’s rest days and on public holidays.\n(2) A dog handler’s allowance shall be of an amount determined in accordance with Schedule 10.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation and of Schedule 10, a member shall be treated as keeping and caring for a dog at his home if he would be so doing but for his being on annual leave.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/473/regulation/55",
    "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."
}