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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-commencement-no-1-order-1984/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1984/2002",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-commencement-no-1-order-1984",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Article 2 of the Order brings section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 into force on 1st January 1985 for the limited purpose of replacing constabulary powers of stop and search for stolen or unlawfully obtained goods exercisable under local enactments referred to in section 7(1) and (2) of the Act (which expire at the end of 1984) by the equivalent powers, in the localities to which those enactments apply, to search for stolen articles under section 1 of the Act.\nArticle 3 brings into force on 1st January 1985 and 1st March 1985 respectively the provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 set out in Schedules 1 and 2 to the Order. As provided by section 120, those provisions extend to England and Wales only, except for sections 7, 108(1) and (6) and 109 (which extend throughout Great Britain); sections 108(4) and (5), 110, 111, 112(1), the amendments to the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 in paragraphs 30 to 33 of Schedule 6, and the repeal in Schedule 7 of section 5(3) of that Act (which extend to Scotland only); section 112(2) (which extends to Northern Ireland only); and section 113(3) to (13), section 115, the definition of “document” in section 118 and section 119 in so far as they have effect in relation to any provision other than a provision extending to England and Wales only.",
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  "version": "current",
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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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