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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-8A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/6",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8A",
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  "number": "8A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a designation applies this paragraph to any person, he shall be under a duty, when in the course of his employment he is present at a police station—\n(a) to assist any officer or other designated person to keep any person detained at the police station under control; and\n(b) to prevent the escape of any such person,\nand for those purposes shall be entitled to use reasonable force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8A and cross-heading inserted (22.4.2007) by The Policing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/912 (N.I. 6)), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 5"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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