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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2865",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police, England And Wales\nMade 5th November 2008\nLaid before Parliament 7th November 2008\nComing into force 1st December 2008\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of the Police Act 1996.\nIn accordance with section 63(3) of that Act, the Secretary of State has supplied a draft of these Regulations to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and taken into consideration their representations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.16. Section 50 was amended by paragraph 95 of Schedule 27 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c.29) and section 125 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c.16). It is also amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 22 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c.4). Section 63 was amended by paragraph 78 of Schedule 4 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c.15) and paragraph 6 of Schedule 22 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c.4)."
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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."
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