{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/schedule-1/crossheading-wales",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/schedule-1/crossheading-wales.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/16",
  "legislation_title": "Police Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/crossheading/wales",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Wales",
  "text": "Name of police area\nExtent\nDyfed Powys\nThe counties of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys\nGwent\nThe county of Monmouthshire and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen\nNorth Wales\nThe counties of the Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Denbighshire and Flintshire and the county boroughs of Conwy and Wrexham.\nSouth Wales\nThe counties of Cardiff and Swansea and the county boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff and the Vale of Glamorgan",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in entry in Sch. 1 substituted (25.6.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 129(b); S.I. 1997/1377, art. 2(2)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Entry in Sch. 1 substituted (25.6.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 129(c); S.I. 1997/1377, art. 2(2)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in entry in Sch. 1 substituted (25.6.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 129(d); S.I. 1997/1377, art. 2(2)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/50",
      "affecting_title": "Police Act 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/schedule/1/crossheading/wales",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:17.766939+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."
}