{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-enforcement-in-england-and-wales-order-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-enforcement-in-england-and-wales-order-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/593",
  "legislation_title": "The Drug Trafficking Offences (Enforcement in England and Wales) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drug-trafficking-offences-enforcement-in-england-and-wales-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 23rd March 1988\nComing into force 1st April 1988\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace the 23rd day of March 1988\nPresent,\nThe Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council\nWhereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 24A of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 32; section 24A was inserted by section 31 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 41)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/593/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:48.937186+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."
}