{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997/section-125",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997/section-125.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/50",
  "legislation_title": "Police Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997",
  "path": "section/125",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "125",
  "heading": "Regulations.",
  "text": "(1) Anything authorised or required by any provision of this Part to be prescribed shall be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.\n(1A) In prescribing the amount of a fee that—\n(a) is payable in relation to applications under a particular provision of this Part, but\n(b) is not payable in relation to applications made by volunteers,\nthe Secretary of State may take into account not only the costs associated with applications in relation to which the fee is payable but also the costs associated with applications under that provision made by volunteers.\n(2) Regulations under this Part shall be made by statutory instrument.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A statutory instrument ... shall be subject to annulment pursuant to a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(5) Regulations under this Part may make different provision for different cases.\n(6) If the power mentioned in subsection (1) is exercised by the Scottish Ministers, the reference in subsection (3)subsection (4) to each House of Parliament must be construed as a reference to the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 5 repealed (S.) (1.4.2025) by Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 13), s. 97, sch. 5 para. 3 (with s. 96); S.S.I. 2025/27, reg. 3(1)(2), sch. (with regs. 4, 5, 7-10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 125(1A) inserted (E.W.) (13.5.2014) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), ss. 151, 185(1)(2)(b) (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 125(3) repealed (1.4.2006 for S.) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.S.I. 2006/166, art. 2(1)(d); and repealed (6.4.2006 for E.W., 3.12.2007 for N.I.) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), s. 336(3)(4), Sch. 35 para. 12(a), Sch. 37 Pt. 11; S.I. 2006/751, art. 2(c)(d)(i)(ii); S.I. 2007/3340, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(4) repealed (1.4.2006 for S.) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.S.I. 2006/166, art. 2(1)(d); and repealed (6.4.2006 for E.W., 3.12.2007 for N.I.) by Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), s. 336(3)(4), Sch. 35 para. 12(b), Sch. 37 Pt. 11; S.I. 2006/751, art. 2(c)(d)(i)(ii); S.I. 2007/3340, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 125(6) added (1.4.2006 for S., 6.4.2006 for E.W., 3.12.2007 for N.I.) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(4)(e)(8), Sch. 14 para. 14; S.S.I. 2006/166, art. 2(1)(e); S.I. 2006/378, art. 7(c); S.I. 2007/3341, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(6) substituted (E.W.) (1.1.2006) by The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3496), arts. 1(1), 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 125 in force at 19.3.2001 for E.W. by S.I. 2001/1097, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 125 in force at 3.12.2007 for N.I. by S.I. 2007/3342, art. 2(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/50/section/125",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:18.907526+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."
}