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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-justice-act-1999-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2001/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/916",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2001",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions of Access to Justice Act 1999",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act come into force on 2nd April 2001:\n(a) in Part I:\n(i) sections 12 to 18 and Schedule 3 (Criminal Defence Service); and\n(ii) to the extent that they are not already in force, section 24 and Schedule 4 (amendments consequential on Part I); and\n(b) in Part VII, so far as they have not already been effected, the repeals and revocations in Part I of Schedule 15 and, so far as it relates to those repeals and revocations, section 106.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/916/article/3",
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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."
}