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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-commencement-no-2-and-saving-provisions-order-2004/article-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The provisions of the 2003 Act listed in paragraph (2) shall come into force on 29th January 2004.\n(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) section 3 (arrestable offences);\n(b) section 25 (code of practice);\n(c) section 28 and Schedule 2 (charging or release of persons in police detention), except new section 37B(8) and (9)(a) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;\n(d) section 31 (removal of requirement to substantiate information on oath);\n(e) section 49 (rules of court);\n(f) section 55 (rules of court);\n(g) section 73 (rules of court);\n(h) section 93 (rules of court);\n(i) section 111 (rules of court);\n(j) section 132 (rules of court);\n(k) section 284 and Schedule 28 (increase in penalties for drug-related offences);\n(l) section 286 (increase in penalties for offences under section 174 of the Road Traffic Act 1988;\n(m) section 328 (criminal record certificates: amendments of Part 5 of Police Act 1997) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedule 35 referred to in sub-paragraph (o);\n(n) section 332 (repeals) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedule 37 referred to in sub-paragraph (p);\n(o) in Schedule 35 (criminal record certificates: amendments of Part 5 of the Police Act 1997)—\n(i) paragraphs 1, 2, 3(1), (2)(b) and (c), 4(1), (2)(b) and (c), 7, 10 and 11; and\n(ii) for the purpose of making regulations only, paragraphs 4(3) and 5; and\n(p) in Part 11 of Schedule 37 (repeals), the entry relating to section 120(3) of the Police Act 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "New section 37B is inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the 2003 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1997 c. 50."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/81/article/4",
    "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."
}