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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/schedule-3/paragraph-56",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/44",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/56",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 62 (intimate samples), in subsection (10)—\n(a) sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) is omitted, and\n(b) in paragraph (aa), for sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) there is substituted “ paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (applications for dismissal); and ”.\n(3) In section 71 (microfilm copies), the paragraph beginning “Where the proceedings” is omitted.\n(4) In section 76 (confessions), subsection (9) is omitted.\n(5) In section 78 (exclusion of unfair evidence), subsection (3) is omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 56 partly in force; Sch. 3 para. 56 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 336(3); Sch. 3 para. 56(1)(2)(b) in force for certain purposes at 9.5.2005 by S.I. 2005/1267, art. 2, Sch. para. 1(1)(l); Sch. 3 para. 56 in force at 18.6.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/1320, art. 4(1)(c)(2)(3) (with art. 5) (see S.I. 2012/2574, art. 4(2) and S.I. 2013/1103, art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 56 in force at 5.11.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/2574, art. 2(1)(c)(2)(3), Sch. (with arts. 3, 4) (as amended (4.11.2012) by S.I. 2012/2761, art. 2) (with S.I. 2013/1103, art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 56 in force at 28.5.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/1103, art. 2(1)(c)(2)(3) (with arts. 3, 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/25",
      "affecting_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/44/schedule/3/paragraph/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:27.767865+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."
}