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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004-commencement-no-1-order-2005/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/579",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004-commencement-no-1-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 shall come into force on 21st March 2005—\n(a) sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 (causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult);\n(b) section 58(1) (amendments and repeals) in so far as it relates to the paragraphs of Schedule 10 in paragraph (c) below;\n(c) paragraphs 2, 7, 16, 24, 26 to 27, 29, 33, 54, 56, 59 and 65 to 66 of Schedule 10 (minor and consequential amendments);\n(d) section 58(2) (amendments and repeals) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedule 11 in paragraph (e) below;\n(e) in Schedule 11 (repeals), the entries relating to:\n(i) the Coroners Act 1988; and\n(ii) the Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996;\n(f) section 59 (transitionals and transitory provisions) in so far as it relates to the paragraph of Schedule 12 in paragraph (g) below; and\n(g) paragraph 2 of Schedule 12.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/579/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:06:59.827240+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."
}