{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-investigation-of-offences-order-2014/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2402",
  "legislation_title": "The Independent Police Complaints Commission (Investigation of Offences) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-police-complaints-commission-investigation-of-offences-order-2014",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Investigation of offences: authorisations required under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984",
  "text": "For the purposes of prescribed investigations—\n(a) the authorisation required in relation to the exercise of the power in a provision of the 1984 Act specified in the first column of table 1 in the Schedule may be given by a member of the IOPC’s staff of or above the grade specified in the same row in the second column of the table;\n(b) the authorisation required in relation to the exercise of the power in a provision of Code B listed in the first column of table 2 in the Schedule may be given by a member of the IOPC’s staff of or above the grade specified in the same row in the second column of the table;\n(c) the authorisation required in relation to the exercise of the power in a provision of Code C listed in the first column of table 3 in the Schedule may be given by a member of the IOPC’s staff of or above the grade specified in the same row in the second column of the table.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3 substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 31(3) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.10.2014, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2402/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:25.421446+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."
}