{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-amendment-no-3-regulations-2003/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/520",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-amendment-no-3-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2003.\n(2) These Regulations, except regulation 3, shall come into force on 31st March 2003.\n(3) Regulation 3 shall come into force in Wales on 31st March 2003 and in England on 1st June 2003.\n(4) In these Regulations the “2002 Regulations” means the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/233; to which there have been amendments not relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/520/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:38.059687+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."
}