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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006-commencement-no-8-order-2008/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/790",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Justice Act 2006 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006-commencement-no-8-order-2008",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Police and Justice Act 2006 shall come into force on 1 April 2008—\n(a) Section 40 (forfeiture of indecent photographs of children: Northern Ireland) and Schedule 12 (Schedule to be inserted into the Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978);\n(b) Section 52 (amendments and repeals) in so far as it relates to entries in Schedule 15 (repeals and revocations) referred to in sub-paragraph (c);\n(c) In Part 4 of Schedule 15 (repeals: miscellaneous) the entries relating to sub–paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice (Evidence, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988, sub–paragraph 10(2)(b) and (c) of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 and sub–paragraph 3(2)(a) of Schedule 4 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "SI 1988/1847 (N.I. 17)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2001 c 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2004 c.4."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/790/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:33:01.168477+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."
}