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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-criminal-records-registration-regulations-2006/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/750",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Registration) Regulations 2006",
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  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Limit on number of countersignatures",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may refuse to accept a registered body’s or statutory office-holder’s nomination of a person to countersign any applications under Part 5 of the 1997 Act if the maximum number of names for that registered body or statutory office-holder are already registered.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, the maximum number of names for a registered body or statutory office-holder is that specified administratively by the Secretary of State.\n(3) Where more than the maximum number of names have been registered, the Secretary of State may remove from the register such number of names as is necessary to bring the registered body’s or statutory office-holder’s number of registered names to the maximum number permitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/203",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Electronic Communications) Order 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3006",
      "affecting_title": "The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3006",
      "affecting_title": "The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3006",
      "affecting_title": "The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/750/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:10.723925+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."
}