{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/section-104",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996/section-104.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/16",
  "legislation_title": "Police Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1996",
  "path": "section/104",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "104",
  "heading": "Commencement.",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by subsection (2), this Act shall come into force at the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which it is passed.\n(2) The following provisions of this Act—\nsection 50(3),\nPart IV (including Schedules 5 and 6) other than section 88,\nparagraphs 43, 45 and 46 of Schedule 7,\nparagraph 12 of Schedule 8, and\nPart II of Schedule 9,\nshall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.\n(3) An order under this section may appoint different days for different purposes or different areas.\n(4) The power to make orders under this section includes power to make such transitional provisions and savings as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient.\n(5) Where an order under this section contains provisions made by virtue of subsection (4), the statutory instrument containing that order shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 104 power partly exercised (3.3.1999): 1.4.1999 appointed for specified provisions by S.I. 1999/533, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/16/section/104",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:17.766939+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."
}