{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-1998/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-1998/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-1998",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The Police Authority for Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "(1) There shall continue to be a body corporate known as the Police Authority for Northern Ireland.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Schedule 1 shall have effect in relation to the Police Authority.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed (2.12.1999) by 1998 c. 47, s. 100(2) Sch. 15 (with s. 95); S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 wholly in force at 1.4.1999; s. 1 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 75(1); s. 1(2) in force at 9.2.1999 by S.R. 1999/48, art. 3 (with art. 4); s. 1 in force at 1.4.1999 insofar as not already in force by S.R. 1999/176, art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/32/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:34.496122+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."
}