{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000-commencement-no-9-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1149",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000-commencement-no-9-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (testing persons in police detention) shall come into force on 20th May 2002 within the following police areas only:\n(i) Bedfordshire;\n(ii) Devon and Cornwall;\n(iii) Lancashire;\n(iv) Merseyside;\n(v) South Yorkshire; and\n(vi) North Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 57 has already been commenced in respect of the police areas of Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and the metropolitan police district, by virtue of S.I. 2001/2232."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The term “police area” has the meaning ascribed to it in section 101 of the Police Act 1996 (c. 16) by virtue of Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1149/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:59:35.764624+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."
}