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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995-commencement-no2-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/517",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1995 (Commencement No.2, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995-commencement-no2-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of the Act which are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order shall come into force on 5th March 1996 but only for the purpose of enabling subordinate legislation to be made under the provisions specified in column 2 of that Schedule so as to come into force on or after 31st March 1996.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of articles 4 to 6 of, and Schedule 2 to, this Order, all the provisions of the Act, except section 66, shall come into force on 31st March 1996 insofar as they are not then in force.",
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  "version": "current",
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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."
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