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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-172",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-172.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "section/172",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "172",
  "heading": "Sections 169 to 171: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) A pardon under section 169 or 170, or under regulations under section 171, 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 sections 169 to 171 or regulations under section 171 affects the prerogative of mercy.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 172 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 183"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 172 in force at 28.6.2018 by S.R. 2018/128, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/section/172",
    "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."
}