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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-codes-of-practice-visual-recording-of-interviews-order-2002/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110398262",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Visual Recording of Interviews) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-codes-of-practice-visual-recording-of-interviews-order-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "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\nMade 11th April 2002\nLaid before Parliament 15th April 2002\nComing into force 7th May 2002\nWhereas—\n(1) in pursuance of section 60A(1)(a) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (“the Act”) the Secretary of State has the power to issue a code of practice for the visual recording of interviews held by police officers at police stations;\n(2) in pursuance of section 67(1) of the Act the Secretary of State has prepared and published a draft code of practice in connection with the said matter and has considered representations made to him thereon and modified the draft code of practice accordingly;\n(3) in pursuance of section 67(3) of the Act the Secretary of State has laid a draft of the 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) of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60; section 60A was inserted by section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16)."
    }
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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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