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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2750",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Reform Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2002",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2002 Act shall come into force on 2nd December 2002—\n(a) in Part 4 (police powers etc)—\n(i) section 38 (police powers for police authority employees);\n(ii) in Schedule 4 (powers exercisable by police civilians)—\n(a) paragraph 1, except sub-paragraph 1(2)(a);\n(b) paragraph 2 (1),(2), (5), except sub-paragraphs (b) and (c), and (6);\n(c) paragraph 3(1); and\n(d) paragraphs 5 to 8 and 10 to 36;\n(iii) sections 40 and 41 (community safety accreditation schemes) and Schedule 5 (powers exercisable by accredited persons);\n(iv) section 44 (powers of traffic wardens);\n(v) section 46 (offences against designated and accredited persons);\n(vi) section 50 (power to require name and address from persons acting in anti-social manner);\n(vii) sections 61, 62, 64, 65, except new section 1D(1)(b) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, and 66 except new section 1E(1)(b) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (anti-social behaviour); and\n(viii) sections 67 to 69 and 72 to 74 (sex offender orders);\n(b) in Part 7 (supplemental)—\n(i) section 107 (consequential amendments and repeals) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedules 7 and 8 in sub-paragraphs (ii) and (iii) below;\n(ii) paragraphs 4, 8 and 9 of Schedule 7 (minor and consequential amendments); and\n(iii) in Schedule 8 (repeals), the entries relating to:\n(a) the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;\n(b) the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; and\n(c) section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 37."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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