{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-earnings-act-1996/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-earnings-act-1996/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/33",
  "legislation_title": "Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-earnings-act-1996",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996.\n(2) This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.\n(3) This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 26.9.2011 for E.W. by S.I. 2011/1658, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/10",
      "affecting_title": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/33/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:30:01.109226+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."
}