{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-authorities-three-year-strategy-plans-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2526",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Authorities (Three-year Strategy Plans) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-authorities-three-year-strategy-plans-regulations-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 6A of the Police Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act”) requires a police authority to prepare a plan, known as a three-year strategy plan which sets out the authority’s medium and long term strategies for policing that area. The three-year strategy plan must be consistent with the National Policing Plan made under section 36A of the 1996 Act.\nSection 6A(14) of the 1996 Act enables the first period for which a plan has to be submitted to be less than 3 years. Regulation 2 provides that the first period for which a plan is to be submitted is the 2 year period ending on 31st March 2005. The subsequent three-year periods will be the three-year periods commencing on 1st April 2005, 1st April 2008 and every third year thereafter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2526/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:48:33.825145+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."
}