{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-police-officers-order-1974/article-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/551",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Police Officers Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-police-officers-order-1974",
  "path": "article/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any register, or the appropriate part of any register, kept in pursuance of any enactment by the chief constable of an existing police force members of which are transferred under the provisions of Article 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, this Order shall be transferred by him as soon as may be after 1st April 1974 in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) of this Article, and thereafter shall be deemed to form part of the register kept by the chief constable to whom it is transferred.\n(2) (a) If all the members of an existing police force an transferred to the police force for a new police area, the register shall be transferred to the chief constable of that new police area.\n(b) If members of an existing police force an transferred to the police forces for two or more new police areas, the register shall be transferred to the chief constable of any one of those new police areas selected by the first mentioned chief constable.\n(c) In the case of a register transferred under the provisions of paragraph (b) above, the chief constable of a new police area to whom the register is not transferred may request the chief constable to whom it is transferred to transfer to him the part of the register pertaining to his police area.\n(d) any dispute concerning the transfer of any register or part thereof may be resolved by the Secretary of State whose determination shall be final.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/551/article/9",
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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."
}