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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/28",
  "legislation_title": "Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General modifications",
  "text": "(1) Each reference to a constable (however expressed) is to be read as including a reference to an authorised investigator.\n(2) Each reference to an offence is to be read as a reference to an offence of fraud against a public authority, except for the reference to an offence in section 21(8)(b).\n(3) Each reference to a criminal investigation is to be read as a reference to a criminal investigation in connection with an offence of fraud against a public authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 109(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 in force at 1.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/371, reg. 2(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/28/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:27:04.329230+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."
}