{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009-commencement-no-4-order-2010/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009-commencement-no-4-order-2010/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/507",
  "legislation_title": "The Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2009-commencement-no-4-order-2010",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st April 2010",
  "text": "Subject to article 6, the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the 2009 Act is 1st April 2010:\n(a) section 14 (paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc: England and Wales);\n(b) section 15 (paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force etc: Northern Ireland);\n(c) section 16 (amendment to offence of loitering etc for purposes of prostitution);\n(d) section 17 (orders requiring attendance at meetings);\n(e) section 18 (rehabilitation of offenders: orders under section 1(2A) of the Street Offences Act 1959);\n(f) section 19 (soliciting: England and Wales);\n(g) section 20 (soliciting: Northern Ireland);\n(h) section 21 (closure orders) in relation to England and Wales only;\n(i) section 22 (time limits);\n(j) section 23 (foreign travel orders: grounds);\n(k) section 24 (foreign travel orders: duration);\n(l) section 25 (foreign travel orders: surrender of passports);\n(m) section 79 (security planning for airports) in relation to Northern Ireland only;\n(n) section 80 (policing at airports) in relation to Northern Ireland only;\n(o) sections 103 to 107 (football spectators);\n(p) section 108 (strategies for crime reduction etc: probation authorities) insofar as not already in force;\n(q) section 112(1) (minor and consequential amendments and repeals and revocations) insofar as it relates to the provisions of Part 3 of Schedule 7 specified in sub–paragraph (v) and Part 12 of Schedule 7;\n(r) section 112(2) (minor and consequential amendments and repeals and revocations) insofar as it relates to Parts 2 and 11 of Schedule 8;\n(s) Schedule 1 (Schedule to the Street Offences Act 1959);\n(t) Schedule 2 (closure orders) in relation to England and Wales only;\n(u) Schedule 6 (amendment of Part 3 of the Aviation Security Act 1982) in relation to Northern Ireland only;\n(v) paragraphs 18 to 22, 24 and 26 of Schedule 7;\n(w) Part 12 of Schedule 7;\n(x) Parts 2 and 11 of Schedule 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1959 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1982 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/507/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:51:01.044386+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."
}