{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-complaints-and-conduct-regulations-2013/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-complaints-and-conduct-regulations-2013/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/281",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Complaints and Conduct) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-complaints-and-conduct-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police\nMade 12th February 2013\nLaid before Parliament 14th February 2013\nComing into force 7th March 2013\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 19F(2), (3) and (7) of Schedule 3 to the Police Reform Act 2002.\nIn accordance with section 24 of that Act, the Secretary of State has consulted with the Independent Police Complaints Commission, such persons as appear to the Secretary of State to represent the views of police and crime commissioners, the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, the Common Council of the City of London, the Association of Chief Police Officers and such other persons as she thinks fit.\nIn accordance with section 63(3)(b) of the Police Act 1996, the Secretary of State supplied a draft of these Regulations to the Police Advisory Board of England and Wales and has taken into consideration their representations before making these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations modified (E.W.) (8.4.2015) by The Independent Police Complaints Commission (Complaints and Misconduct) (Contractors) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/431), regs. 1, 4, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 30. Paragraph 19F was inserted by section 1(2) of the Police (Complaints and Conduct) Act 2012 (c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 24 was amended by section 6(1) of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 to, the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48), and section 99 of, and paragraphs 277 and 289 of Schedule 16 to, the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1996 c. 16."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/281/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."
}