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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-commencement-no-3-order-1985/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1934",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984-commencement-no-3-order-1985",
  "path": "article/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following transitional provisions shall have effect:—\n(a) Any warrant issued, arrest made or other thing or procedure done or instituted before the commencement date under an enactment or power which, by virtue of Article 2 above, is repealed or abolished as from that date, shall continue to have effect and may be continued or enforced, as if the said enactment or power had not been so repealed or abolished.\n(b) Part IV of the Act (detention) shall apply only where the period of detention commenced on or after the commencement date and, in relation to any person detained by the police on or after that date whose detention commenced before that date, the enactments and rules of law replaced by the said Part IV shall continue to have effect;\n(c) the following provisions of the Act, namely—\nPart VII (documentary evidence in criminal proceedings);\nPart VIII (evidence in criminal proceedings—general);\nSchedule 3 (provisions supplementary to sections 68 and 69);\nParagraph 41 of Schedule 6 (so far as it amends paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 to the Value Added Tax Act 1983); and\nParts II to V of Schedule 7 (repeals consequential on Parts VII and VIII of the Act,\nshall not apply—\n(i) to a trial; or\n(ii) to proceedings before a magistrates' court acting as examining justices,\nwhich began before the commencement date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/1934/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."
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