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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-regulations-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-regulations-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1908",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Property) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-property-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 31st July 1997\nLaid before Parliament 7th August 1997\nComing into force 1st September 1997\nThe Secretary of State, in pursuance of section 2 of the Police (Property) Act 1897, and section 43(5), (6) and (7) of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1897 c. 30; section 2 was amended by section 1 of the Police (Property) Act 1997 (c. 30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1973 c. 62; section 43(5) was amended and subsections (6) and (7) added by section 2 of the Police (Property) Act 1997."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1908/introduction",
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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."
}