{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-police-services-scotland-order-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-police-services-scotland-order-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/695",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Police Services (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-police-services-scotland-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 7th March 1997\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1997\nComing into force 1st April 1997\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 36(3) and (6) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation in accordance with section 36(3) of that Act with the Joint Central Committee and such bodies or associations as appear to him to be representative of police authorities or of chief constables or superintendents, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 77; section 36 was substituted by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), section 59 and further amended by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, paragraph 71(15)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/695/introduction",
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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."
}