{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-commencement-no-12-order-1990/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2084",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Commencement No. 12) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-commencement-no-12-order-1990",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "This Order shall not apply in the case of —\n(a) a trial on indictment; or\n(b) an appeal to the criminal division of the Court of Appeal; or\n(c) the hearing of a reference under section 17 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968,\nif the trial, the appeal or the hearing, as the case may be, has begun before 26th November 1990; and, in a case where a preparatory hearing has been ordered under section 7 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (power of judge to order preparatory hearing in serious and complex fraud), the effect of section 8 of that Act (trial to begin with preparatory hearing) shall, for the purpose of this article, be disregarded and the trial shall be taken to begin with the swearing of the jury. Home Office",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2084/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:58:55.357153+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."
}