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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-commencement-no-2-and-saving-provisions-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provisions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-commencement-no-2-and-saving-provisions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The provisions of the 2003 Act listed in paragraph (2) shall come into force on 20th January 2004.\n(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) sections 1, 2, 4, 6 to 8, 11 and 12 and Schedule 1 (amendments of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984);\n(b) sections 294 to 297 (offenders transferred to mental hospital);\n(c) section 306 (limit on period of detention without charge of suspected terrorists);\n(d) section 320 (offence of outraging public decency triable either way);\n(e) section 329 (civil proceedings for trespass to the person brought by offender);\n(f) section 332 (repeals) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedule 37 referred to in sub-paragraph (g); and\n(g) in Part 1 of Schedule 37 (repeals) the entries relating to—\n(i) the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 save for the reference to section 63(3)(a) of that Act;\n(ii) the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994;\n(iii) the Armed Forces Act 2001; and\n(iv) the Police Reform Act 2002.\n(3) The commencement of section 306 of the 2003 Act does not alter the period of time that may be authorised by a warrant of further detention under Part III of Schedule 8 to the 2000 Act in relation to a person—\n(a) arrested before 20th January 2004 under section 41 of the 2000 Act; or\n(b) arrested on or after 20th January 2004 under section 41 of the 2000 Act if at the time of that arrest he was detained under Schedule 7 to that Act and his examination under that Schedule began before 20th January 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2001 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2002 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/81/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:35:40.577102+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."
}