{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-1994/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3262",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1964 Act” means the Police Act 1964;\n“the 1994 Act” means the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994;\n“joint police authority” means —\n(a) a metropolitan county police authority constituted in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985, or\n(b) the Northumbria Police Authority;\n“new police authority” means the police authority to be established under section 3 of the 1964 Act (as substituted by section 2 of the 1994 Act) for a police area and “old police authority” means the police authority for that area which it is to supersede;\n“nominated person” means a person nominated and appointed under article 6(4) or, as the case may be, article 8(5) below; and\n“property” includes money and all other property, real or personal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3262/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:19:50.091410+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."
}