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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-rules-1998/article-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1941",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-rules-1998",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Discharge of chief officer’s functions",
  "text": "Any of the functions of a chief officer of police under the principal Act may in the event of his illness or absence, or of a vacancy in the office of the chief officer of police, be discharged—\n(a) in the City of London, by an Assistant Commissioner of City of London Police; and\n(b) in the metropolitan police district, by an Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1941/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:43.371035+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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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}