{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-attendance-of-witnesses-act-1965/section-10",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/69",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-attendance-of-witnesses-act-1965",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "†Short title, consequential amendments and repeals, commencement, interpretation and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Attendance of Witnesses) Act 1965.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The enactments mentioned in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in the second column of that part, . . . .\n(4) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of two months beginning with the date on which it is passed.\n(5) Any reference in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference thereto as extended or applied, by any other enactment.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . so much of this section and Schedule 2 to this Act as relates to the Writ of Subpoena Act 1805 extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland, but, save as aforesaid, this Act does not extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 10(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 10(3) residue repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1805 c. 92."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 10(3) and Sch. 2 Pt. I is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and except as indicated does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "S. 10(6): by virtue of the substitution (4.7.1996) of ss. 2-2E for s. 2 by 1996 c. 25, s. 66(2)(7), ss. 2-2E extend to England, Wales and Northern Ireland"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/69/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:06.125650+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."
}