{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-act-1897/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-act-1897/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/60-61/30",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Property) Act 1897",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-act-1897",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make further provision with respect to the Disposal of Property in the Possession of the Police.\n[6th August 1897]",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (N.I.) (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 32, s. 74(3), Sch. 6 (with Sch. 5 para. 1); S.R. 1999/176, art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: modified by Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 (c. 56), s. 2(4); extended by Criminal Damage Act 1971 (c. 48), s. 6(3) and Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62), s. 43(4); excluded by Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2), s. 139(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (25.8.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 144(1), 168(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act excluded (13.4.2006) by Terrorism Act 2006 (c. 11), ss. 28(7)(a), 39(2); S.I. 2006/1013, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act applied by 1996 c. 56, s. 550AA(10) (as inserted (31.5.2007 for E., 31.10.2010 for W.) by Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c. 38), ss. 45, 66(2); S.I. 2007/858, art. 3(a); S.I. 2010/2426, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied by 1992 c. 13, s. 85B (as inserted (31.5.2007 for E., 31.10.2010 for W.) by Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c. 38), ss. 46, 66(2); S.I. 2007/858, art. 3(b); S.I. 2010/2426, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act applied (1.10.2007) by Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (c. 38), ss. 47(9), 66(2); S.I. 2007/2180, art. 3(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act excluded by 1978 c. 37, Sch. para. 2(2) (as inserted (1.4.2008) by Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48), s. 53(1), Sch. 11; S.I. 2008/790, art. 2(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act applied by 1996 c. 56, s. 550ZD(1) (as inserted (1.9.2010) by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), ss. 242(1), 269(4); S.I. 2010/303, art. 6, Sch. 5 (as amended (26.7.2010) by S.I. 2010/1891, art. 2(2) (with art. 3)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Act applied by 1992 c. 13, s. 85AD(1) (as inserted (1.9.2010) by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), ss. 244(1), 269(4); S.I. 2010/303, art. 6, Sch. 5 (as amended (26.7.2010) by S.I. 2010/1891, art. 2(2) (with art. 3)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Act excluded (12.12.2017) by Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017 (c. 6), ss. 24(6)(a), 32(2) (with s. 30); S.I. 2017/1087, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (10.5.2021) by The West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Functions) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/112), arts. 1(4), 35(1)(2), Sch. 5 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (21.3.2024) by The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/414), arts. 1(2), 5, Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/60-61/30/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:24.095976+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."
}