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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007-commencement-no-5-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/191",
  "legislation_title": "The Offender Management Act 2007 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007-commencement-no-5-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st April 2010",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Offender Management Act 2007, to the extent that they are not already in force, come into force on 1st April 2010—\n(1) section 1 (meaning of “the probation purposes”);\n(2) section 2 (responsibility for ensuring the provision of probation services);\n(3) section 3 (power to make arrangements for the provision of probation services);\n(4) section 4 (restriction on certain arrangements under section 3);\n(5) section 6 (power to make grants for probation purposes etc);\n(6) section 7 (national standards for the management of offenders);\n(7) section 8 (annual plans);\n(8) section 10 (national framework for qualifications of officers);\n(9) section 11 (abolition of local probation boards and transfers of property etc and staff);\n(10) section 12 (the inspectorate);\n(11) section 15 (power to repeal section 4);\n(12) section 39 (minor and consequential amendments, transitionals, and repeals) insofar as it relates to the entries in Schedule 5 specified in paragraph (13); and\n(13) in Part 1 (probation services) of Schedule 5 (repeals), the entries relating to the following provisions of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000—\n(a) sections 1 to 5;\n(b) section 8;\n(c) section 10;\n(d) section 18;\n(e) section 20(2);\n(f) section 21(5);\n(g) section 22;\n(h) section 78; and\n(i) Schedule 1.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 1 was amended by paragraph 83(a) of Part 2 of Schedule 26 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c.4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/191/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:54:32.193589+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."
}