{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/section-54.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/31",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970",
  "path": "section/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Citation, interpretation, repeals, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Administration of Justice Act 1970.\n(2) References in this Act to any enactment include references to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.\n(3) The enactments specified in Schedule 11 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Except insofar as it amends, or authorises the amendment of, any enactment which extends to Scotland, this Act shall not extend to Scotland.\n(6) This section (except subsection (3)) and the following provisions only of this Act extend to Northern Ireland, that is to say—\n(a) sections 1(6) . . . and Schedules 2 . . . , so far as they relate to any enactment which extends to Northern Ireland . . . ;\n(b) Part III; and\n(c) sections 36, 38A, 39 . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 54(4) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 1 Group 4}"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c. 32), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 54(6) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 1 Group 4}"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39), s. 192(4), Sch. 4 Pt. I para. 31"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 42, Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by Administration of Estates Act 1971 (c. 25), s. 12(3), Sch. 2 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 10(5), 41(7), 48, 51(2), 54(3) are in the form in which they were originally enacted: they were not reproduced in Statutes in Force and do not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/31/section/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:09.937865+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."
}