{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-general-no-2-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-general-no-2-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2784",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (General) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-general-no-2-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Defence Service (General) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force—\n(a) for the purposes of this regulation and regulations 2, 3, 5 and 7, on 31st October 2005;\n(b) for the purposes of regulation 4, on the date when sections 1G and 1H of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 come into force;\n(c) for the purposes of regulation 6, on the date when section 5A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 comes into force.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the 2001 Regulations” means the Criminal Defence Service (General) (No. 2) Regulations 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 37; sections 1G and 1H were inserted by section 20 of the Drugs Act 2005 (c. 17)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1997 c. 40; section 5A was inserted by the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28), section 12(5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1437; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2002/712, 2002/2785, 2003/644 and 2004/1196."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2784/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:11.648295+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."
}