{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-act-2021-commencement-no-7-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-act-2021-commencement-no-7-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2025/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (Commencement No. 7 and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-act-2021-commencement-no-7-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Savings",
  "text": "(1) Where immediately before the end of the specified period—\n(a) a DAPN has been given to P,\n(b) an application for leave to apply for a DAPO has been made,\n(c) an application for a DAPO has been made,\n(d) proceedings, as specified in section 31, have been issued, or\n(e) the court has made a DAPO,\nthe provisions of Part 3 will continue to have effect in the area specified in regulation 3 for the purposes set out in the second column of the table in paragraph (2).\n(2) The table referred to in paragraph (1) is—\nStage in Proceedings\nPurpose\nDAPN given to P\nApplication for DAPO may be made\nApplication for leave made\nCourt may grant leave and application for DAPO may be made\nApplication for DAPO made\nDAPO may be made by the court\nProceedings specified under section 31 issued\nDAPO may be made by the court on application or of its own initiative\nDAPO made by the court\nDAPO may be varied or discharged by the court, enforced on breach or appealed",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/261/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:30.534660+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."
}