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  "legislation_title": "Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012",
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  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Personal records",
  "text": "Regulations made under section 48 may make provision relating to—\n(a) the keeping of personal records about constables and police cadets,\n(b) the taking of fingerprints and samples from constables and police cadets and the retention, use and destruction of such fingerprints and samples or of information derived from such samples.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 1.10.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/253, art. 2, Sch."
    }
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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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