{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009/schedule-7/paragraph-124",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009/schedule-7/paragraph-124.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/26",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/124",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "124",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S. I. 1989/1341 (N. I. 12)) is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 37 (custody officers at police stations)—\n(a) for paragraph (3) substitute—\n“(3) No police officer may be appointed a custody officer unless the officer is of at least the rank of sergeant.”,\n(b) in paragraph (5) for “an individual” substitute “ an officer ”,\n(c) in paragraph (7)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a) omit “or a staff custody officer” and for “such a person” substitute “ such an officer ”, and\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) for “such person” substitute “ such officer ”,\n(d) in paragraph (8) for “a person” substitute “ an officer ”, and\n(e) omit paragraph (11).\n(3) In Article 40 (responsibilities in relation to persons detained)—\n(a) in paragraph (6)(a) omit “(or, if the custody officer is a staff custody officer, any police officer or any member of the police support staff)”, and\n(b) omit paragraph (7).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/26/schedule/7/paragraph/124",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:38.465629+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}