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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-fingerprints-regulations-2007/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Special Constables Regulations 1965 and the Police Regulations 2003.\nRegulation 2 amends the Special Constables Regulations 1965 by inserting a new regulation 1A (fingerprints). This regulation makes provision for special constables to provide fingerprints as directed by their chief officer. Their fingerprints are to be kept separate from other persons’ fingerprints (except for those of regular police officers), and provision is made for the destruction of a special constable’s fingerprints when he leaves the force (save if he becomes a regular member of the force or transfers to another force).\nThe existing provisions relating to the fingerprints of regular officers, contained in regulation 18 of the Police Regulations 2003 (fingerprints), are amended by regulation 3 to mirror the new requirements for special constables. The effect of these amendments are that the fingerprints of regular officers do not have to be kept separate from the fingerprints of special constables, and do not have to be destroyed if a regular officer, on ceasing to be a member of the force, becomes a special constable at that force or transfers to another force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1162/note",
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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."
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