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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002-commencement-no-8-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/913",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Reform Act 2002 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-reform-act-2002-commencement-no-8-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Police Reform Act 2002 shall come into force on 1st April 2004—\n(a) Part 2 (complaints and misconduct) to the extent not already in force;\n(b) section 37 (protected disclosure by police officers);\n(c) section 107 (consequential amendments and repeals) in so far as it relates to the entries in Schedules 7 and 8 respectively in paragraphs (e) and (f) below;\n(d) Schedule 3 (handling of complaints and conduct matters etc.) to the extent not already in force;\n(e) in Schedule 7 (minor and consequential amendments), paragraphs 1 to 3, 5 and 6, 7(1) to (3), 10, 13, 15, 18 to 20, and 22 to 24; and\n(f) in Schedule 8 (repeals), the entries relating to—\n(i) the Superannuation Act 1972;\n(ii) the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975;\n(iii) the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975;\n(iv) section 63(3)(b), Chapter 1 of Part 4 and section 86 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Police Act 1996 and in section 105(2) of that Act the words from “paragraph 8” to “that paragraph”;\n(v) the Employment Rights Act 1996;\n(vi) section 39(3) of the Police Act 1997;\n(vii) the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998;\n(viii) paragraphs 97 to 99 of Schedule 27 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999;\n(ix) the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and\n(x) section 125(4)(b) of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1975 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1996 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1997 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1998 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1999 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "2000 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "2001 c. 16."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/913/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:28:46.215113+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."
}