{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994/section-96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994/section-96.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/29",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994",
  "path": "section/96",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Extent.",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of this Act extend to England and Wales only—\nsections 1 to 41 together with Schedules 1 to 3;\nPart IV together with Schedule 8;\nSchedules 4 and 5 so far as they relate to enactments which extend to England and Wales only.\n(2) Part II of, together with Schedule 6 to, this Act extends to Scotland only.\n(3) The following provisions of this Act extend to Northern Ireland . . .—\nsections 43 and 44 together with Schedules 4 and 5 so far as they relate to enactments which extend there;\n. . .;\nPart V.\n(4) The provisions of Schedule 9 to this Act have the same extent as the enactments repealed.\n(5) Except as provided by subsections (3) and (4) above, this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 96(3) repealed (N.I.) (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 32, ss. 74(3), 75(1), Sch. 6 (with Sch. 5); S.R. 1999/176, art. 3 (subject to transitional provisions in art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/29/section/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:47.960485+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."
}