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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/473",
  "legislation_title": "Royal Ulster Constabulary Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-ulster-constabulary-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "POLICE\nMade 4th October 1996\nTo be laid before Parliament\nComing into operation 12th November 1996\nThe Secretary of State, in pursuance of section 25 of the Police Act (Northern Ireland) 1970, read with section 18 of the Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1962, and after consulting, in accordance with section 34(2) of the said Act of 1970, the Police Authority and the Police Association and after taking into account the recommendations made by the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom and supplying that Board with a draft of the regulations in accordance with section 62(1) of the Police Act 1996, hereby makes the following regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 9 (N.I.) as amended by 1994 c. 29 and modified by S.I. 1973/2163"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1962 c. 7 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1996 c. 16"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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  },
  "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."
}