{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-commencement-no-26-order-2011/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2188",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 26) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-commencement-no-26-order-2011",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 29(1) to (3), (5) and (6) (new method of instituting proceedings) and section 30 (further provision about the new method) of the 2003 Act come into force on 3rd October 2011, but only for the purposes of criminal proceedings instituted by a public prosecutor within the meaning of —\n(a) section 29(5)(a) of the 2003 Act (a police force or a person authorised by a police force to institute criminal proceedings), so far as not already in force; and\n(b) section 29(5)(e) of the 2003 Act (a Secretary of State or a person authorised by a Secretary of State to institute criminal proceedings) where criminal proceedings are instituted by the Secretary of State for Business and Trade or a person authorised by that Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(b) substituted (3.5.2023) by The Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/424), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 55 (with art. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/1999, S.I. 2008/1424, S.I. 2009/2879, and S.I. 2010/3005 commenced the same provisions in the 2003 Act in respect of a public prosecutor within the meaning of section 29(5)(a) of the 2003 Act in specified locations in England and Wales."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2188/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:56:28.145556+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."
}