{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006-commencement-no-9-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2503",
  "legislation_title": "The Police and Justice Act 2006 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-justice-act-2006-commencement-no-9-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement: England, Wales and Northern Ireland",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Police and Justice Act 2006 shall come into force on 1st October 2008—\n(a) sections 35 to 38 (computer misuse);\n(b) section 52 (amendments and repeals) in so far as it relates to the provisions in sub-paragraph (c) and the entries in Schedule 15 in sub-paragraph (d);\n(c) paragraphs 2, 6, 17 to 24, 26, 27 and 29 of Schedule 14 (minor and consequential amendments); and\n(d) in Part 4 of Schedule 15 (repeals and revocations) the entries relating to—\n(i) sections 11, 12, 14, 16 and 17 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990;\n(ii) Schedule 4, paragraph 7 and Schedule 8, paragraph 347 to the Courts Act 2003; and\n(iii) Schedule 16, paragraph 7 to the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 35, 36 and 38 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 have been prospectively amended by section 61 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c.27)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 29 of Schedule 14 to the Police and Justice Act 2006 has been prospectively amended by section 61 of the Serious Crime Act 2007."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c.18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2003 c.39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2005 c.15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2503/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:24:22.431241+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."
}