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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000-commencement-no-3-order-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/562",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000-commencement-no-3-order-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force section 72 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 on 1st March 2001. Section 72 amends section 444 of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56) to include an aggravated offence where a parent, knowing that his child is failing to attend regularly at school, fails without reasonable justification to cause him to attend. A person guilty of such an offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/562/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:01:08.950928+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."
}