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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009-commencement-no-1-northern-ireland-order-2011/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2011",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "The day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2009 Act is 1st June 2011—\n(a) section 53 (persons suffering from diminished responsibility (Northern Ireland));\n(b) sections 54 and 55 (partial defence to murder; loss of control);\n(c) section 56(1) (abolition of common law defence of provocation);\n(d) section 56(2)(b) (repeal relating to abolition of common law defence of provocation);\n(e) section 58 (infanticide (Northern Ireland));\n(f) section 178, so far as it relates to the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (g);\n(g) in Part 2 of Schedule 23 (criminal offences), the repeal relating to the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1966.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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