{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956/section-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956/section-57.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/46",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1956",
  "path": "section/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "†Short title, repeal, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Administration of Justice Act 1956.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) This Act, except Part V and section fifty-one thereof, shall not extend to Scotland.\n(4) The provisions of this Act, other than Part V thereof, section fifty-five thereof and the First Schedule thereto, shall come into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor may appoint by order made by statutory instrument, and he may appoint different days for different purposes.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 57(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), s. 1, Sch. Pt. XI"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 57(4) fully exercised"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "16.7.1956 appointed under s. 57(4) for the purposes of ss. 25, 33 and 54 by S.I. 1956/1065 (1956 II, p. 2332)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/46/section/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:38.801549+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."
}