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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/358",
  "legislation_title": "The Justice (2015 Act) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015",
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  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into operation on 2nd November 2015",
  "text": "The day appointed for the coming into operation of the following provisions of the 2015 Act is 2nd November 2015—\n(a) section 37(1) (restriction on information provided to certain persons);\n(b) section 37(2) (procedure for certain cancellations or suspensions of registration) to the extent necessary to bring into operation section 120AC (registered persons: information on the progress of an application) of the Police Act 1997;\n(c) section 38 (minimum age for applicants for certificates or to be registered);\n(d) section 39 (additional grounds for refusing an application to be registered);\n(e) section 40 (enhanced criminal record certificates: additional safeguards);\n(f) section 44 (electronic transmission of applications);\n(g) section 45 (disclosures by Department of Justice to Disclosure and Barring Service);\n(h) section 46 (inclusion of cautions and other divisionary disposals in criminal records);\n(i) section 47 (consequential amendments);\n(j) section 66(2)(d) and (3)(d) (notification requirements: changes) for the purposes of making regulations;\n(k) section 67(5)(a) (notification requirements: periodic notification) for the purposes of making regulations;\n(l) section 69(2) and (3) (notification requirements: travel outside the United Kingdom) for the purpose of making regulations;\n(m) in Schedule 5 (amendments: criminal records)—\n(i) paragraphs 1 to 5, 10 to 14, 17 and 20;\n(ii) paragraph 7(1) in so far as it brings into operation sub-paragraphs (2) and (4);\n(iii) paragraph 8(1) in so far as it brings into operation sub-paragraph (3);\n(iv) paragraph 9(1) in so far as it brings into operation sub-paragraphs (2), (5) and (6);\n(v) paragraph 15(1) in so far as it brings into operation sub-paragraph (4);\n(vi) paragraph 16(1) in so far as it brings into operation sub-paragraph (5);\n(vii) paragraph 18 to the extent necessary to bring into operation section 120AC(1); and\n(viii) paragraph 19 to the extent necessary to bring into operation section 120AC.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c.50."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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