{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/9",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Freedoms Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Repealing etc. unnecessary or inappropriate powers of entry",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate national authority may by order repeal any power of entry or associated power which the appropriate national authority considers to be unnecessary or inappropriate.\n(2) Schedule 2 (which contains repeals etc. of certain powers of entry) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 39 partly in force; s. 39(2) in force for specified purposes at 1.7.2012 see s. 120(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 39(1) in force at 1.7.2012 by S.I. 2012/1205, art. 3(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/section/39",
    "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."
}