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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2008/article-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "The coming into force of section 26 of the Act is of no effect in relation to—\n(a) existing prisoners within the meaning of paragraph 8 of Schedule 12 to the Criminal Justice Act 1991;\n(b) long-term prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for an offence under any of sections 11, 12, 15 to 18, 54 and 56 to 63 of the Terrorism Act 2000;\n(c) long-term prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for an offence under any of sections 47, 50 and 113 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001;\n(d) long-term prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for an offence under section 12 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956;\n(e) long-term prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for an offence of aiding, abetting counselling, procuring or inciting the commission of an offence listed in any of paragraphs (b) to (d) of this article; and\n(f) long-term prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for an offence of conspiring or attempting to commit an offence listed in any of paragraphs (b) to (d) of this article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c.11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2001 c.24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1956 c.69; section 12 was repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c.42), sections 139 and 140, Schedule 6, paragraph 11(a) and Schedule 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/10",
      "affecting_title": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1466/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:30:08.774942+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."
}