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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-amendment-regulations-2026/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/597",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 4th June 2026\nLaid before Parliament 9th June 2026\nComing into force 30th June 2026\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 50(1) and (2)(e) and 51(1) and (2)(ba) of the Police Act 1996.\nIn accordance with section 63(3)(a) of the Police Act 1996, the Secretary of State has supplied the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales with a draft of these Regulations and has taken into consideration the representations made by that Board before making these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 16. Section 51(2)(ba) was inserted by section 35 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30) and amended by paragraph 4(2) in Part 1 of Schedule 22 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4) (“the 2008 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 63(3) was substituted by paragraph 78(3) of Schedule 4 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15). Relevant amendments to section 63(3) were made by paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 22 to the 2008 Act, section 10(3)(b) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26) and sections 123(4) and 133(2) of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/597/introduction",
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  },
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  "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."
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