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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009-commencement-no-3-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/125",
  "legislation_title": "The Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009-commencement-no-3-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 29th January 2010",
  "text": "The day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act is 29th January 2010:\n(a) section 10 (police officers engaged on service outside their force etc);\n(b) section 11 (police equipment);\n(c) section 12 (police procedures and practices);\n(d) section 13 (police facilities and services);\n(e) section 28 (selling alcohol to children);\n(f) section 29 (confiscating alcohol from young persons);\n(g) section 30 (offence of persistently possessing alcohol in a public place);\n(h) section 31 (directions to individuals who represent a risk of disorder);\n(i) section 32 (mandatory licensing conditions relating to alcohol);\n(j) section 33 (individual members of licensing authorities to be interested parties);\n(k) section 79 (security planning for airports) in relation to England, Wales and Scotland only;\n(l) section 80 (policing at airports) in relation to England, Wales and Scotland only;\n(m) section 83 (monitoring application);\n(n) section 97 (criminal records: applications);\n(o) section 110 (partial exemption for SCDEA from Firearms Act 1968)\n(p) section 112(1) (minor and consequential amendments and repeals and revocations) insofar as it relates to Part 4 and Part 5 of Schedule 7;\n(q) section 112(2) (minor and consequential amendments and repeals and revocations) insofar as it relates to Part 3 and Part 7 of Schedule 8, and the provisions of Part 8 of Schedule 8 specified in paragraph (u);\n(r) Schedule 4;\n(s) Schedule 6 in relation to England, Wales and Scotland only;\n(t) Part 4 and Part 5 of Schedule 7;\n(u) Part 3, Part 7 and Part 8, insofar as it relates to repeals in the Police Act 1997 and the Criminal Justice Act 2003, of Schedule 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 c. 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/125/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:55:14.920152+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."
}