Article 2

(1)

The provisions of the 2003 Act listed in paragraph (2) shall come into force on 20th January 2004.

(2)

The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—

(a)

sections 1, 2, 4, 6 to 8, 11 and 12 and Schedule 1 (amendments of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984^f1);

(b)

sections 294 to 297 (offenders transferred to mental hospital);

(c)

section 306 (limit on period of detention without charge of suspected terrorists);

(d)

section 320 (offence of outraging public decency triable either way);

(e)

section 329 (civil proceedings for trespass to the person brought by offender);

(f)

section 332 (repeals) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedule 37 referred to in sub-paragraph (g); and

(g)

in Part 1 of Schedule 37 (repeals) the entries relating to—

(i)

the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 save for the reference to section 63(3)(a) of that Act;

(ii)

the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994^f2;

(iii)

the Armed Forces Act 2001^f3; and

(iv)

the Police Reform Act 2002^f4.

(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—

(a)

arrested before 20th January 2004 under section 41 of the 2000 Act; or

(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.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1984 c. 60.
f2: 1994 c. 33.
f3: 2001 c. 19.
f4: 2002 c. 30.