{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004/section-62",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/28",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004",
  "path": "section/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Extent",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, Parts 1 to 3 extend to England and Wales only.\n(2) The following provisions extend also to Northern Ireland—\nsection 5;\nsection 9;\nsections 17 to 21;\nSchedule 1;\nsection 56;\n(3) The following provisions extend to Northern Ireland only—\nsection 7;\nsection 10(2);\nsection 13;\nsection 23;\nsection 46.\n(4) Nothing in subsection (1) affects the extent of section 8 or of any provision of section 6 or 6A as applied by section 8.\n(5) An amendment, repeal or revocation in Schedule 3, 7, 8, 10 or 11 has the same extent as the provision to which it relates.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 62(4) substituted (28.3.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 31.10.2009) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378(1), 383(2), Sch. 16 para. 240; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3; S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4 (and see transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(4) inserted (2.7.2012) by Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims (Amendment) Act 2012 (c. 4), s. 4(2), Sch. para. 10; S.I. 2012/1432, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/28/section/62",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:58.721276+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."
}