{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-secretary-of-states-objectives-order-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-secretary-of-states-objectives-order-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/110",
  "legislation_title": "The NCIS (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-secretary-of-states-objectives-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order sets out the Secretary of State’s objectives for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (“NCIS”). Section 2 of the Police Act 1997 requires the NCIS Service Authority to have regard to these objectives in the discharge of its functions. Section 4 of the 1997 Act requires the NCIS Service Authority to issue a service plan which must give particulars of these objectives.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/110/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:58.303513+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."
}