{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005/section-84",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/15",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005",
  "path": "section/84",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Transfer of responsibility to other protection provider",
  "text": "(1) A protection provider who makes arrangements under section 82(1) may agree with another protection provider that, as from a date specified in the agreement—\n(a) the protection provider will cease to discharge any responsibilities which he has in relation to the arrangements, and\n(b) the other protection provider will discharge those responsibilities instead.\n(2) Any such agreement may include provision for the making of payments in respect of any costs incurred or likely to be incurred in consequence of the agreement.\n(3) If an agreement is made under subsection (1), any powers conferred on a protection provider by this Chapter (including the power conferred by subsection (1)) are, as from the date specified in the agreement, exercisable by the other protection provider as if he had made the arrangements under section 82(1).\n(4) Each protection provider who makes an agreement under subsection (1) must record that he has done so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 84 in force at 1.4.2006 except to the extent that it extends to S. by S.I. 2005/1521, art. 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 84 in force at 1.4.2006 for S. by S.S.I. 2006/166, art. 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/15/section/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:19.224345+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."
}