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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-amendment-qualifying-offences-order-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2774",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Amendment: Qualifying Offences) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-amendment-qualifying-offences-order-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order adds various offences to the list of “qualifying offences” in section 65A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Under Part 5 of that Act, designation of an offence as a “qualifying offence” has implications for the circumstances in which a constable can require a person convicted of the offence to attend at a police station for the purpose of taking his fingerprints or a non-intimate sample, and has implications for the period for which such a person’s fingerprints or sample can be retained.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2774/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:36:15.587530+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."
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