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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996-equipment-amendment-regulations-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/395",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1996 (Equipment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996-equipment-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police, England And Wales\nMade 24th February 2014\nLaid before Parliament 26th February 2014\nComing into force 19th March 2014\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 53(1), (1A) and (2A) of the Police Act 1996.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted in accordance with section 53(2) of that Act and considers that these Regulations are necessary for the purpose of promoting the efficiency and effectiveness of one or more police forces in accordance with section 53(1B) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.16. Subsection (1) was renumbered as such, and subsection (2) inserted, by section 134(1) of and paragraph 75 of Schedule 9 to the Police Act 1997 (c.50). Subsections (1A) and (1B) were substituted by section 6 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c.30) and were amended by section 11 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c.26). Further amendments to section 53 were made by section 93 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c.13)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/395/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}