{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/29",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Precepts.",
  "text": "(1) In section 39 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, in subsection (1) (list of major precepting authorities) for paragraphs (b) and (c) there shall be substituted—\n“(b) a police authority established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964;”.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 27(2) repealed (27.7.1999) by 1999 c. 27, s. 34, Sch. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1964 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 wholly in force at 1.11.1994; s. 27 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 94(1); s. 27 in force (1.11.1994, for the purposes of any financial year beginning on or after 1.4.1995) by S.I. 1994/2025, art. 7(1)(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/29/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:47.960485+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."
}