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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-codes-of-practice-order-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1887",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-codes-of-practice-order-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 16th July 2004\nComing into force 1st August 2004\nWhereas the Secretary of State:\n(1) has, in pursuance of sections 60(1)(a), 60A(1)(a) and 66(1)(a) to (d) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (“the Act”), issued codes of practice in connection with the:\n(a) exercise by police officers of statutory powers of stop and search;\n(b) searching of premises by police officers and the seizure of property found by police officers on persons or premises;\n(c) detention, treatment and questioning of persons by police officers;\n(d) identification of persons by police officers;\n(e) tape recording of interviews with suspects; and\n(f) visual recording with sound of interviews with suspects;\n(2) may, under section 67(2) of the Act, revise the whole or any part of a code;\n(3) has consulted in accordance with section 67(4) of the Act; and\n(4) has, in accordance with section 67(7B) of the Act, laid each revised code of practice before Parliament;\nAnd whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by each House of Parliament;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 67(5) and (7D) of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60; section 60A was inserted by section 76(1) of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 67(1) to (7D) was substituted by section 11 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1887/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."
}