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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-commencement-no-6-order-1989/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/50",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (Commencement No. 6) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1988-commencement-no-6-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 shall come into force on 23rd January 1989:-\n(a) section 103 (amendments of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 to the extent necessary to bring into force the provisions of Schedule 5 (drug trafficking amendments) specified in paragraphs (b) and (c) below; and\n(b) paragraphs 2, 3(1), 4 to 11 and 16 & 17 of Schedule 5 (which amend the said Act of 1986 so as to make certain provisions of that Act correspond to provisions of Part VI of the Criminal Justice Act 1988);\n(c) Part II of that Schedule (amendments of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987);\n(d) section 170(2) (repeals) to the extent necessary to bring into force the provisions of Schedule 16 specified in the following paragraph; and\n(e) in Schedule 16, the repeals of the following provisions of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986: section 10(1), section 15(5)(b) and (c), in section 17(1), the words from “but” to the end, and in section 38(11), the words “in England and Wales”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1987 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/50/article/2",
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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."
}