The Police and Police (Special Constables) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003

Amendment of regulation 6 of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976

2.  In regulation 6 of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 1976(1) (qualifications for appointment of constables)–

(a) after paragraph (a) there is inserted–

“(aa) if not a national of a State which is a Contracting Party(2) to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992(3) as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993(4), has leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom for an indefinite period;”; and

(b) in paragraph (c) after “sufficiently educated” there is inserted “, including being sufficiently competent in written and spoken English and sufficiently numerate,”.

(1)

S.I. 1976/1073 relevantly amended by S.I. 1992/3170.

(2)

The current members of the European Economic Area are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

(3)

O.J. No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.3.

(4)

O.J. No. L 1, 3.1.94, p.571.