{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006-commencement-no-10-order-2008/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006-commencement-no-10-order-2008/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2785",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Justice Act 2006 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006-commencement-no-10-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "Section 45 (attendance by accused at certain preliminary or sentencing hearings) to the extent not already in force and section 46 (live link bail) of the Police and Justice Act 2006 shall come into force on 14 November 2008 in the local justice areas of:\n(i) in London: Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden and Islington, City of London, City of Westminster, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich and Lewisham, Hackney and Tower Hamlets, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea, Haringey, Harrow Gore, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston-upon-Thames, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond-upon-Thames, Sutton, Waltham Forest, and Wandsworth; and\n(ii) in Kent: Central Kent, East Kent and North Kent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The local justice areas into which England and Wales is divided are specified in the Local Justice Areas Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/554)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2785/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:59.927468+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}