{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/9",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Inclusion of DNA profiles on National DNA Database",
  "text": "After section 63A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 insert—\n“Inclusion of DNA profiles on National DNA Database\n63AA (1) This section applies to a DNA profile which is derived from a DNA sample and which is retained under any power conferred by any of sections 63E to 63L (including those sections as applied by section 63P).\n(2) A DNA profile to which this section applies must be recorded on the National DNA Database.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 31.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1814, art. 2(g) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2013/1813)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/section/23",
    "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."
}