{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-police-services-authority-staff-transfer-order-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/88",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Police Services Authority (Staff Transfer) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-police-services-authority-staff-transfer-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes provision in relation to the transfer of staff to the Scottish Police Services Authority (“the Authority”) which is established under the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006.\nArticle 3 specifies the constables and other persons who will transfer to the Authority on the transfer day (1st April 2007). The constables and other persons who will transfer are those who immediately prior to the transfer day, are engaged wholly or mainly in providing the police support services defined in article 3(3), or are seconded to the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency.\nArticle 4 makes provision in respect of those constables and persons who on transferring to the Authority will also become members of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (“the Agency”). Any constable or other person who immediately prior to the transfer day is seconded to the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency will become a member of the Agency.\nArticle 5 places a duty on police authorities and joint boards to make staff transfer schemes in relation to constables or other persons who are to transfer to the Authority under article 3(2)(a) and (b). (Paragraph 2(6) of schedule 2 to the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 places a duty on Scottish Ministers to make a scheme in relation to those who transfer under article 3(2)(c)). Any scheme made under article 5 must be made no later than 23rd March 2007 and must identify those constables or other persons who are to transfer to the Authority and, if appropriate, those who will become members of the Agency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/88/note",
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  },
  "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."
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