{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/523",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and shall come into force on 26th March 2012.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 2002 Regulations” mean the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) Regulations 2002; and\n“the 2009 Regulations” mean the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (No. 2) Regulations 2009.\n(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/233 as amended by S.I. 2003/137, 2003/520, 2003/1418, 2004/1759, 2005/347, 2006/748, 2006/2181, 2007/700, 2007/1892, 2007/3224, 2008/2143, 2009/460, 2009/1882, 2009/2428, 2010/817, 2010/2702 and 2011/719."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/1882 as amended by S.I. 2010/817."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/523/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:40:10.964869+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."
}