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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/301",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Crime Officers (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-crime-officers-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture, England And Wales\nFood, England And Wales\nMade 7th March 2025\nLaid before Parliament 10th March 2025\nComing into force 1st May 2025\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 26E(1), (2) and (6) and 105(4) and (5) of the Police Reform Act 2002.\nIn accordance with section 24 of that Act, the Secretary of State has consulted with the Independent Office for Police Conduct, the Director General, such persons as appear to the Secretary of State to represent the views of police and crime commissioners, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, the Common Council, the National Police Chiefs’ Council and such other persons as the Secretary of State thinks fit.\nIn accordance with section 63(3)(b) of the Police Act 1996, the Secretary of State has supplied a draft of these Regulations to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and has taken into account its representations before making these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 30. Section 26E was inserted by section 54(4)(b) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32). The Police Reform Act 2002 was also amended by Schedule 9 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3). Other relevant amendments to the Police Reform Act 2002 are set out in subsequent footnotes."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 24 was amended by paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 to the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48), paragraph 289 of Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13) and paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 14 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Independent Office for Police Conduct is a body corporate by virtue of section 9 of the Police Reform Act 2002, as amended by section 33 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017. There are other amendments to section 9 of the Police Reform Act 2002, but these are not relevant to this instrument."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1996 c. 16. Section 63(3)(b) was substituted by paragraphs 68 and 78 of Schedule 4 to the Serious Organised Crime Act 2005 (c. 15); there are other amendments to section 63, but these are not relevant to this instrument."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/301/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:03.915731+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."
}