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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1466",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (Commencement No.1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "Subject to articles 3 and 4, the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act is 9th June 2008—\n(a) section 26 (release of certain long-term prisoners under Criminal Justice Act 1991) save insofar as subsection (2) inserts subsections (1C) and (1D) in section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991;\n(b) section 148(1) and (2) (consequential etc. amendments and transitional and saving provision) insofar as they relate to the provisions specified in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this article;\n(c) the following paragraphs of Schedule 26 (minor and consequential amendments)—\n(i) 9, 12(1) and (3)(b) and 19(1) and (4) (Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984);\n(ii) 29(1), (2) and (5) (Criminal Justice Act 1991);\n(iii) 31 and 33(1) to (3) (Crime (Sentences) Act 1997); and\n(iv) 40 and 45(a) (Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000); and\n(d) paragraphs 8 and 9 of Schedule 27 (transitory, transitional and saving provisions).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c.53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c.47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1997 c.43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2000 c.6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1466/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}