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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-northern-ireland-amendment-regulations-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/419",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Service of Northern Ireland (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-northern-ireland-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police\nMade 17th December 2015\nComing into operation 5th October 2008\nThe Department of Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 25 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998, makes the following Regulations. Those powers are now vested in the Department.\nThe Department has taken into consideration the recommendations made by the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom and supplied the Board with a draft of the Regulations in accordance with section 62(1ZA) of the Police Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c.32. Relevant amendments are made by section 78(1) of and paragraph 23 of Schedule 6 to the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 5 of and paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order (S.I. 2010/976) transferred the regulation making powers of the Secretary of State to the Department of Justice."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1996 c.16. Section 62(1ZA) was inserted by article 5 of and paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 3 to S.I. 2010/976."
    }
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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."
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