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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3216",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 7th December 2004\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 2004\nComing into force 1st January 2005\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 50 of the Police Act 1996, after supplying a draft of these Regulations to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and taking into consideration their representations in accordance with section 63(3) of the Police Act 1996, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 16; there are amendments to section 50 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "There are amendments to section 63 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3216/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}