{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-100",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-100.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/9",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012",
  "path": "section/100",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "100",
  "heading": "Advisers",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may appoint persons to advise whether, in any case referred to them by the Secretary of State—\n(a) the caution or conviction is of a kind mentioned in section 92(1), or\n(b) the Secretary of State should decide as mentioned in condition A in that section.\n(2) The Secretary of State may disclose to a person so appointed such information (including anything within section 94(1)(a) or (b)) as the Secretary of State considers relevant to the provision of such advice.\n(3) The Secretary of State may pay expenses and allowances to a person so appointed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 100(1) substituted (13.6.2023) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 194(9)(a), 208(1) (with s. 194(11)); S.I. 2023/641, reg. 2(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 100(1) renumbered as s. 100(1)(b) (13.6.2023) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 194(9)(b), 208(1) (with s. 194(11)); S.I. 2023/641, reg. 2(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 100(1)(b) substituted (13.6.2023) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 194(9)(c), 208(1) (with s. 194(11)); S.I. 2023/641, reg. 2(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 5 Ch. 4: power to amend conferred (31.1.2017 for specified purposes) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), ss. 166, 183(1)(5)(e) (with s. 167)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 100 in force at 1.10.2012 by S.I. 2012/2234, art. 3(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/section/100",
    "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."
}