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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-application-to-revenue-and-customs-order-2015/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1783",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Application to Revenue and Customs) Order 2015",
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  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Use of reasonable force",
  "text": "Where any provision of the Act as applied to Revenue and Customs—\n(a) confers a power on an officer of Revenue and Customs, and\n(b) does not provide that the power may only be exercised with the consent of some person other than that officer,\nthe officer may use reasonable force, if necessary, in the exercise of the power.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 16 in force at 4.11.2015, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1783/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:31:27.455795+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."
}