{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-overseas-service-act-1945/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-overseas-service-act-1945/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/9-10/17",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Overseas Service) Act 1945",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-overseas-service-act-1945",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation, short title and extent.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) This Act may be cited as the Police (Overseas Service) Act 1945.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3(1)(2) repealed (1.4.1995) by 1994 c. 29, s. 93, Sch. 9 Pt. I; S.I. 1994/71, art. 4, Sch. (with arts. 5-11); S.I. 1995/492, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 3(4) repealed (9.2.1999) by 1998 c. 32, s. 74(1)(3), Sch. 4 para. 2, Sch. 6; S.R. 1999/48, art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "Act extended to (N.I.) (9.2.1999) by 1998 c. 32, s. 74(1), Sch. 4 para. 2; S.R. 1999/48, art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:05.578670+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."
}