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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-commencement-no-21-order-2008/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1424",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 21) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-commencement-no-21-order-2008",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The purposes referred to in article 2 are the purposes of criminal proceedings instituted by a public prosecutor within the meaning of section 29(5)(a) of the 2003 Act (a police force or a person authorised by a police force to institute criminal proceedings), in a magistrates’ court sitting in one of the following locations:\n(a) Chester;\n(b) Crewe;\n(c) Macclesfield;\n(d) Northwich;\n(e) Runcorn;\n(f) Warrington; and\n(g) Widnes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1424/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:30:26.617388+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."
}