Explanatory note
This Order brings into force on 1st January 1986 (“the commencement date”), with the exceptions mentioned in the Schedule, those provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 which are not already in force.
Article 3 makes transitional provision. Paragraph (a) provides for the continuing validity of warrants, arrests and other procedures where the enabling power (common law or statutory) is repealed as from the commencement date. Paragraph (b) disapplies the provisions of Part IV of the 1984 Act regulating the time a person may be kept in detention by the police where his detention began before that date. Paragraph (c) prevent the new provisions for the law of evidence in criminal proceedings in Parts VII and VIII of the 1984 Act from applying to trials and committal proceedings which had begun before the commencement date.
The following provisions of the Act have been brought into operation by commencement order made before the date of this Order:—
| Provision | Date of commencement | S.I. No. |
|---|---|---|
| s. 1 (partially) | 1.1.85 | 1984/2002 |
| ss. 7(2)(b) and (3), 23, 59, 66, 67, 106, 109(c), 112, 113(3) to (13), 115 and 118 | " | " |
| ss. 108, 110 and 111 | 1.3.85 | " |
| s. 119 and schs. 6 (partially) and 7 (partially) | " | " |
| Part IX | 29.4.85 | 1985/623 |
| ss. 109(a) and (b), 116, 119 (partially), schs. 4, 5, 6 (partially) and 7 (partially) | " | " |