Amendment of regulation 6 of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 19762.

In regulation 6 of the Police (Scotland) Regulations 19763 (qualifications for appointment of constables)–

(a)

after paragraph (a) there is inserted–

“(aa)

if not a national of a State which is a Contracting Party4 to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 19925 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 19936, 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,”.