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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/699",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 7th March 1996\nLaid before Parliament 18th March 1996\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(3)\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 33 of the Police Act 1964, and after taking into consideration the recommendations made by the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom and furnishing the said Board and the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales with a draft of the Regulations in accordance with section 2(1) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 and section 46(3) of the Police Act 1964, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 48; section 33 was amended by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), section 18, and those amendments (except new section 33(3)) have been brought into force by S.I. 1994/2025."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 46(3) was amended by section 2(4) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/699/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:39.116124+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."
}