{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/643",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th March 2004\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 2004\nComing into force 1st April 2004\nWhereas the Secretary of State, has consulted, in accordance with sections 24 and 39(11) of the Police Reform Act 2002, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, persons whom he considers to represent the interests of police authorities, persons whom he considers to represent the interests of chief officers of police and such other persons as he thinks fit;\nAnd whereas the Secretary of State has supplied a draft of these Regulations to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and has taken into consideration their representations in accordance with section 63(3)(d) of the Police Act 1996;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 39(1) and 83(1) to (2A) of the Police Act 1997, and sections 13, 20(5), 21(10) and (12), 23, 29(1), 39(9) and 105(4) and (5) of, and paragraphs 3(7), 4(1)(b) and (4), 7(1) and (3), 8(2), 9(8), 11(2)(c), 13(4), 23(11), 24(9) and 25(13) of Schedule 3 to, the Police Reform Act 2002, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 16; section 63(3)(d) was inserted by section 107 of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 7 to, the 2002 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1997 c. 50; sections 39(1) and 83(1) to (2A) were substituted by section 25 of the 2002 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/643/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."
}