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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appointments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/379",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Appointments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appointments-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 4th September 2004\nTo be laid before Parliament\nComing into operation 1st October 2004\nThe Secretary of State, in pursuance of sections 25 and 26 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998, and after consulting the Northern Ireland Policing Board and the Police Association for Northern Ireland, and after taking into consideration the recommendations of the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom and supplying that Board with a draft of these regulations in accordance with section 62(1) of the Police Act 1996, hereby makes the following regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 32"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 16"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/379/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."
}