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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/372",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police\nMade 28th October 2009\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 29th October 2009\nComing into force 10th December 2009\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 26 of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 26(9) of the 1967 Act, they have submitted a draft of the Regulations to the Police Advisory Board for Scotland and have taken into consideration representations made on the draft by that Board.\nIn accordance with section 62(1A) of the Police Act 1996, they have taken into consideration any recommendation made by the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom and have supplied the Board with a draft of the Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c.77; section 26(1) was amended by the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 (c.29) (“the 1994 Act”), section 53(1)(a); sections 26(1A) and (10) were inserted by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c.60), section 111; section 26(2) was amended by the 1994 Act, sections 47(5) and 52(2) and Schedule 9, and by the Police Act 1996 (c.16) (“the 1996 Act”), section 103 and Schedule 7, paragraph 14(2); sections 26(2A) to (2C) were inserted by the 1994 Act, section 52(3); section 26(2A)(b) was amended by section 75(4) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7); section 26(2C) was repealed by section 101 and paragraph 1(3) of schedule 6 to the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 10); section 26(5A) was inserted by the 1994 Act, section 53(1)(b); section 26(7) was repealed by the 1994 Act, section 52(4) and Schedule 9; section 26(8) was repealed by the Police Act 1969 (c.63), section 4(8); section 26(9) was amended by the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c.10), section 2(4) and by the 1996 Act, section 103(1) and Schedule 7, paragraph 14(3). Section 26 is modified by section 17 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c.65). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c.16; section 62(1A) was inserted by S.I. 1999/1820, article 4 and Schedule 2, paragraph 124(b), and amended by the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 10), section 101 and schedule 6, paragraph 5. A previous version of section 62(1A) was repealed by the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c.16), section 128 and Schedule 6, paragraph 77."
    }
  ],
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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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