{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013/schedule-3/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013/schedule-3/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/22",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Courts Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-courts-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The chief officer of a UK police force may provide assistance to the NCA if the Director General requests assistance to be provided.\n(2) A UK law enforcement agency may provide assistance to the NCA if the Director General requests assistance to be provided.\n(3) A request may be made under this paragraph only if the Director General considers that the NCA has a special need for the chief officer, or agency, to provide assistance.\n(4) A request under this paragraph must—\n(a) state the special need for assistance, and\n(b) specify the assistance that is wanted.\n(5) If a request is made under this paragraph, a chief officer, or law enforcement agency, may provide such assistance as the chief officer, or agency, considers appropriate in all the circumstances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 9 in force at 7.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/22/schedule/3/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:16.888200+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."
}