{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/schedule-9/paragraph-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/9",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 78 (orders, regulations and rules)—\n(a) in subsection (1) after “the Secretary of State” insert “ or the Lord Chancellor ”,\n(b) in subsection (3)(a)—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) after “30(7),” insert “ 32A(7), ”, and\n(c) in subsection (5) after “the Secretary of State” insert “ or (as the case may be) the Lord Chancellor ”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 16(b)(i) repealed (22.7.2020) by Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25), s. 272(1), Sch. 10 Pt. 8 (with Sch. 9 paras. 7, 8, 10); S.I. 2020/766, reg. 2(e)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 16 in force at 1.11.2012 by S.I. 2012/2075, art. 4(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/schedule/9/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:55.374488+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."
}