{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-23.json",
  "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/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Index of defined expressions",
  "text": "In this Chapter an expression listed in the first column of the table has the meaning given by, or is to be interpreted in accordance with, the corresponding provision listed in the second column.\nExpression\nProvision\nthe data protection legislation\nsection 10(10)\neducational authority\nsection 12(1) and Schedule 2\neducational authority for a local government area\nsection 12(2) and Schedule 2\neducational authority for a relevant area\nsection 9(13)\nhealth or social care authority\nsection 10(9)\nlocal government area\nsection 11(4)\npatient information\nsection 10(9)\npersonal information\nsection 10(9)\npreventing serious violence\nsection 13(1) and (2)\nprison authority\nsection 12(1) and Schedule 2\nprison authority for a local government area\nsection 12(2) and Schedule 2\nprison authority for a relevant area\nsection 9(13)\nreducing serious violence\nsection 13(1)\nrelevant area\nsection 9(13)\nserious violence\nsection 13(6)\nspecified authority\nsection 11(1) and Schedule 1\nspecified authority for a local government area\nsection 11(6) and Schedule 1\nspecified authority for a relevant area\nsection 9(13)\nviolence\nsection 13(3)\nyouth custody authority\nsection 12(1) and Schedule 2\nyouth custody authority for a local government area\nsection 12(2) and Schedule 2\nyouth custody authority for a relevant area\nsection 9(13)",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 208(4)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/section/23",
    "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."
}