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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004-commencement-and-savings-order-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/420",
  "legislation_title": "The Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 (Commencement and Savings) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004-commencement-and-savings-order-2004",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order appoints various days for the coming into force of the provisions of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 (“the Act”).\nArticle 2 provides that all the provisions of the Act, so far as not then in force, should come into force on 15th November 2005. The majority of Part 7 (Housing: Antisocial behaviour notices) and Part 8 (Housing: Registration of certain landlords) of the Act will come into force on that date.\nArticle 3 appoints the following days for the coming into force of various provisions of the Act, namely:\n(a) 28th October 2004 for the provisions specified in Schedule 1 to this Order which are the majority of Parts 1 to 4 and 6 of the Act, various provisions in Part 10 (Further criminal measures), Part 11 (Fixed penalty notices) and other miscellaneous provisions;\n(b) 5th November 2004 for the provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Order which relate to fixed penalty notices under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) and the sale of spray paint to children;\n(c) 1st December 2004 for the provisions specified in Schedule 3 to this Order which relate to Part 5 (Noise Nuisance);\n(d) 31st January 2005 for the provisions specified in Schedule 4 to this Order which are mainly about supervision requirements in the children’s hearing system and duties of local authorities; and\n(e) 4th April 2005 for the provisions specified in Schedule 5 to this Order which relate to restriction of liberty orders, section 13 and Part 9 (Parenting orders).\nThe Act received Royal Assent on 26th July 2004. Sections 141 and 145 came into force on Royal Assent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
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