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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-northern-ireland-amendment-regulations-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/13",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Service of Northern Ireland (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-service-of-northern-ireland-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Police\nMade 10th January 2020\nComing into operation 1st April 2020\nThe Department of Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25(1) and 26(1) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998, makes the following Regulations. Those powers are now vested in the Department.\nIn accordance with sections 25(8) and 26(6) of that Act the Department has consulted the Northern Ireland Policing Board and the Police Association for Northern Ireland before making these Regulations.",
  "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 paragraphs 9 and 10 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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/13/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."
}