{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-act-1999/section-312",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-act-1999/section-312.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/29",
  "legislation_title": "Greater London Authority Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-authority-act-1999",
  "path": "section/312",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "312",
  "heading": "Metropolitan Police Authority to be police authority instead of Secretary of State.",
  "text": "(1) Section 101 of the Police Act 1996 (interpretation) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In the definition of “police authority”, in paragraph (b), for “Secretary of State” there shall be substituted “ Metropolitan Police Authority ”.\n(3) In the definition of “police fund”—\n(a) in paragraph (a), after “force maintained under section 2” there shall be inserted “ or the metropolitan police force ”, and\n(b) paragraph (b) shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1996 c. 16."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/29/section/312",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:45.840103+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."
}