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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-167",
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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": "section/167",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "167",
  "heading": "Sections 164 to 166: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) A pardon under section 164 or 165... does not—\n(a) affect any conviction, caution or sentence, or\n(b) give rise to any right, entitlement or liability.\n(2) Nothing in this section or in section 164 or 165 ... affects the prerogative of mercy.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 167(1) omitted (13.6.2023) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 195(13)(a), 208(1) (with s. 195(14)); S.I. 2023/641, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 167(2) substituted (13.6.2023) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 195(13)(b)(i), 208(1) (with s. 195(14)); S.I. 2023/641, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 167(2) omitted (13.6.2023) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 195(13)(b)(ii), 208(1) (with s. 195(14)); S.I. 2023/641, reg. 2(b)"
    }
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    },
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/section/167",
    "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."
}