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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Educational, prison and youth custody authorities",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter—\n“educational authority” means a person listed in the first column of the first table in Schedule 2;\n“prison authority” means a person listed in the first column of the second table in Schedule 2;\n“youth custody authority” means a person listed in the first column of the third table in Schedule 2.\n(2) For the purposes of this Chapter an educational authority, prison authority or a youth custody authority listed in a table in Schedule 2 is an authority for the local government area or (as the case may be) each local government area listed in the corresponding entry in the second column of the table.\n(3) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend Schedule 2 by adding, modifying or removing an entry in a table in that Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 208(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 31.1.2023 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2022/1227, reg. 4(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:35.152975+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."
}