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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1987-commencement-no-3-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1564",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 1987 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1987-commencement-no-3-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force on 31st October 1988 sections 4 to 11, and, so far as they are not already in force, section 15 of and Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice Act 1987. Sections 4 to 11 provide for the transfer of criminal proceedings involving serious or complex fraud from the magistrates' court to the Crown Court. Section 15 and Schedule 2 make related consequential amendments. The other provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 are already in force by virtue of earlier commencement orders (S.I. 1987/1061, 1988/397).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1564/note",
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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."
}