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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2390",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Act 1997 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-provisions-order-1997",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force various provisions in Parts I and II of the Police Act 1997 and makes related transitional provisions. It also repeals a transitional provision in an earlier commencement order relating to the 1997 Act.\nProvision\nDate of Commencement\nS.I. No.\nSections 1, 17, 47, 62, 129 and Schedules 1 and 2 (all partially only); and sections 44, 45, 46, 89, 90, 128, 130, 131 and 132\n25.6.1997\n1997/1377 (C. 50).\nSections 1 and 47 and Schedules 1 and 2 (for the purposes for which they are not already in force), sections 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 52, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 88 (partially), 134, (partially, paragraphs 27 and 41 of Schedule 9 (partially) and paragraphs 28, 40 and 88 of Schedule 9\n23.7.1997\n1997/1377 (C. 50).\nSection 101\n5.8.1997\n1997/1696 (C. 71).\nSections 2, 3, 48, 49, 91, 96, 109, 111, 134 (all partially only) paragraphs 1, 2, 8, 10 of Schedule 8 (all partially) sections 25 to 27, 70 to 72, Schedule 4, paragraphs 3, 5 and 10 of Schedule 6, paragraphs 4 and 9, 11 and 18 of Schedule 8, paragraphs 3, 8, 9, 29(3), 82 and 83 of Schedule 9\n22.8.1997\n1997/1930 (C. 79).\nSections 2, 17, 48 and 62 (partially only) and Schedules 3 and 5.\n8.10.1997\n1997/1930 (C. 79).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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