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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-1995-order-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/316",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Amendment) (1995 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-1995-order-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Article 3 of the 1995 Order shall apply to persons taken to a police station from a custodial establishment in pursuance of a direction under section 16 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, notwithstanding that the direction was made before the appointed day.\n(2) Article 4 of the 1995 Order shall apply notwithstanding that the person was unlawfully at large before the appointed day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 Ch. 18 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/316/article/3",
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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."
}