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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-declaration-of-acceptance-of-office-order-2012/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2553",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Declaration of Acceptance of Office) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-elections-declaration-of-acceptance-of-office-order-2012",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Declaration of Acceptance of Office) Order 2012.\n(2) This Order comes into force on 15th November 2012.\n(3) “Police area” means a police area listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 (police areas outside London).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 15.11.2012, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 16; Schedule 1 was amended by section 129 of the Police Act 1997 (c. 50) and by S.I. 1997/1844, 1997/1845, 1997/1846, 1997/1847, 1997/1849, 1997/1850, 1997/1855, 1997/1857 and 2009/119."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2553/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:17:03.415608+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."
}