{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/86",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Disclosure) Regulations 2008",
  "text": "(1) The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Disclosure) Regulations 2008 are amended as follows—\n(2) In Regulation 8(1)(a)(ii) for “and” substitute “or”.\n(3) For Regulation 8(1)(b) substitute—\n“(b) where it appears to the Department of Justice that information is held by a police force in Great Britain in relation to the applicant—\n(i) in the record of conviction and cautions held for the use of police forces generally; or\n(ii) other than in that record,\nthe police force which appears to be holding that information.”\n(4) Regulation 8(2) is omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/542 as amended by S.I. 2009/1798, 2009/2495, 2009/3324, and SR 2010/229; the Secretary of State’s functions under these Regulations are transferred to the Department of Justice by Article 17 of S.I. 2010/976"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/86/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:17:14.197054+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."
}