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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-punishment-scotland-act-1997-commencement-no2-and-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-1997/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2323",
  "legislation_title": "The Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (Commencement No.2 and Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-punishment-scotland-act-1997-commencement-no2-and-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-1997",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions of Parts I, II, III and VI",
  "text": "Subject to article 7 below, the provisions of Parts I, II, III and VI of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order and whose subject matter is specified in column 2 of that Schedule shall, in so far as they are not then in force, come into force on 1st January 1998 but, where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any provision in column 3 of that Schedule, that provision shall come into force on that day only for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2323/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:51:10.349255+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."
}