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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-codes-of-practice-codes-b-to-e-order-2003/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/0110447891",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Codes B to E) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-codes-of-practice-codes-b-to-e-order-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Order made by the Secretary of State, laid before Parliament under section 67(5) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.\nPOLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 28th January 2003\nLaid before Parliament 30th January 2003\nComing into force 1st April 2003\nWhereas the Secretary of State:\n(1) has, in pursuance of section 60(1)(a) and 66(1)(b), (c) and (d) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (“the Act”), issued codes of practice in connection with the:\n(a) searching of premises by police officers and the seizure of property found by police officers on persons or premises;\n(b) detention, treatment and questioning of persons by police officers;\n(c) identification of persons by police officers; and\n(d) tape recording of interviews with suspects;\n(2) may, under section 67(7) of the Act, revise the whole or any part of the code and issue a revised code, and has done so on previous occasions;\n(3) has, in accordance with section 67(1) of the Act, prepared and published draft codes of practice in connection with these matters and has considered representations made to him thereon and modified the draft codes of practice accordingly;\n(4) has, in pursuance of section 67(3) of the Act, laid a draft of each code of practice before both Houses of Parliament;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 67(4) and (6) of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60; subsection (1) of section 66 was numbered as such by virtue of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43), section 57(1) and (4) which is in force in certain police areas only."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "the codes of practice were brought into force by S.I. 1995/450."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
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