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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-fingerprints-regulations-2007/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1162",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Fingerprints) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-fingerprints-regulations-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "police, england and wales\nMade 2nd April 2007\nLaid before Parliament 4th April 2007\nComing into force 1st May 2007\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 50 and 51 of the Police Act 1996.\nIn accordance with section 63(3) of that Act he has supplied a draft of regulations 1 and 3 to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and has taken into account the representations of that Board.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.16; there are amendments to sections 50 and 51 which are not relevant to these Regulations, and section 51 was amended by section 128(1) of the Police Act 1997 (c. 50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1162/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."
}