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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-1998-act-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1999/48",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (1998 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-1998-act-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "Subject to Article 4, the following provisions of the Act shall come into operation on 9th February 1999–\nsection 1(2),\nsection 2(5)(d), 5(e),\nsection 8,\nsection 18,\nsection 19(2) insofar as not already commenced,\nsection 25 (except 25(4)),\nsection 26 (except 26(4)),\nsection 27,\nsection 28,\nsection 30,\nsection 32,\nsection 33,\nsection 34,\nsection 35,\nsection 37,\nsection 38,\nsection 39,\nsection 66,\nsection 67,\nsection 68,\nsection 69,\nSection 74(1), (2) and (3) insofar as it relates to the amendments in paragraphs 2, 5, 6, 7, 12(2), 15, 16, 18(5), 20(2), (3), (4), (5) and (9) of Schedule 4, the transitional provisions and savings in paragraphs 1 and 3 of Part I of Schedule 5 and, in Schedule 6 (repeals), the following:\n(a) the Constabulary (Ireland) Act 1836;\n(b) the Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act 1919;\n(c) the Game Preservation Act (Northern Ireland) 1928, in section 1 the words “notwithstanding anything in Section 15 of the Constabulary (Ireland) Act 1836, as it applies to the said Constabulary”;\n(d) the Police (Overseas Service) Act 1945, section 3(4);\n(e) the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, section 20(2);\n(f) the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966, in section 167(1) the words from “notwithstanding” to the end and, in section 167(2) the words from “as provided” to “any case”;\n(g) the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, section 7(1)(a);\n(h) the Police Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 insofar as sections 17, 21, 25, 26, 28 and 34 are concerned;\n(i) the Police (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, Part III and, in Schedule 1, the amendments to the Police Act (N.I.) 1970.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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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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