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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2004/regulation-1",
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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": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the 2002 Act” means the Police Reform Act 2002;\n“bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales.\n“the Commission” means the Independent Police Complaints Commission;\n“working day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day which is a bank holiday or public holiday in England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "am (with transtl provns)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2866",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    },
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      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3389",
      "affecting_title": "The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Powers of Arrest) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2005"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment: Metropolitan Police) Regulations 2011"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2011/3028",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment: Metropolitan Police) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/3028",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment: Metropolitan Police) Regulations 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2866",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/643/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:30:25.487394+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."
}