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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-protocol-order-2023/schedule/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-protocol-order-2023/schedule/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/649",
  "legislation_title": "The Policing Protocol Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-protocol-order-2023",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Legislative Framework",
  "text": "Each PCC and their respective Chief Constable are established in law as corporations sole within the 2011 Act. In doing so both the PCC and the Chief Constable are enabled by law to employ staff and hold funds. Chief Constables are charged with the impartial direction and control of all constables and staff within the police force that they lead. The staff of the PCC are accountable to the directly elected holder of that office to enable the PCC to exercise their functions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 13 modified (20.12.2023) by The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1432), arts. 1(2), 33(2), Sch. 5 para. 59(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 13 in force at 3.7.2023, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/649/schedule/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:44:12.646496+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."
}