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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002-commencement-no-3-order-2002/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2750",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Reform Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2002",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of Schedule 4 to the 2002 Act shall come into force on 2nd December 2002 in the police areas of Devon and Cornwall, Gwent, Lancashire, Northamptonshire, West Yorkshire and the metropolitan police district only—\n(a) paragraph 2 (3), (4), (5)(b) and (c);\n(b) paragraph 3(2); and\n(c) paragraph 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The term “police area” has the meaning ascribed to it in section 101 of the Police Act 1996 (c. 16) by virtue of Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
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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."
}