{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-constables-regulations-1965/regulation-1C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-constables-regulations-1965/regulation-1C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1965/536",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Constables Regulations 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-constables-regulations-1965",
  "path": "regulation/1C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1C",
  "heading": "Testing for substance misuse",
  "text": "(1) The chief officer of police may require any special constable who—\n(a) gives the chief officer reasonable cause to suspect that he has used a controlled drug;\n(b) has been identified by the chief officer as being vulnerable because of a specific responsibility for dealing with drugs; or\n(c) is selected in accordance with a regime of routine random testing;\nto give a sample of oral fluid or urine to be tested for evidence of controlled drugs in accordance with procedures determined by the Secretary of State.\n(2) The chief officer may require a special constable who falls within paragraph (1)(c) to give a sample of breath to be tested for evidence of alcohol in accordance with procedures determined by the Secretary of State.\n(3) A special constable who—\n(a) on giving a sample under paragraph (1) is found to have taken a controlled drug specified in a determination of the Secretary of State; or\n(b) on giving a sample under paragraph (2), is found to have more than 13 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath,\nshall face such consequences as are specified in that determination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 1B, 1C inserted (20.8.2012) by The Special Constables (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1961), regs. 1, 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/536/regulation/1C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:58:54.866321+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."
}