{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-280",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/52",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992",
  "path": "section/280",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "280",
  "heading": "Police service.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act employee or worker does not include a person in police service; and the provisions of sections 137 and 138 (rights in relation to trade union membership: access to employment) do not apply in relation to police service.\n(2) Police service means service as a member of any constabulary maintained by virtue of an enactment, or in any other capacity by virtue of which a person has the powers or privileges of a constable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 280 modified (1.10.2002 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.2004) by 2002 c. 30, s. 13, Sch. 3 Pt. 3 para. 19(5)(a) (with s. 14(1)); S.I. 2002/2306, art. 4(e); S.I. 2004/913, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 280 modified (7.4.2010) by The UK Border Agency (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/782), regs. 1(1), 42(4)(a) (with reg. 72(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 280 restricted (1.12.2023) by Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 (c. 41), s. 63(4), Sch. 1 paras. 15, 21 (with s. 61); S.I. 2023/1293, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 280 modified (1.5.2025) by The Food Crime Officers (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/301), regs. 1(1), 45(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/section/280",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:34.194369+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."
}