{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 16 (investigations by the appropriate authority on its own behalf) is amended as follows.\n(2) Before sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(A1) This paragraph applies if the appropriate authority, acting in accordance with paragraph 6(2A) or in response to a recommendation under paragraph 6A(6)(b), is to make arrangements for a complaint to be investigated by the appropriate authority on its own behalf.”\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a), after “paragraph” insert “ also ”;\n(b) omit paragraph (a) and the “or” following it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 16 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 183"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 16 in force at 1.2.2020 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2020/5, reg. 2(n) (with art. 3(1)(2)(4))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/schedule/5/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:52.204895+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."
}