{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-international-law-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1995-commencement-no-2-order-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-international-law-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1995-commencement-no-2-order-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2515",
  "legislation_title": "The Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-international-law-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1995-commencement-no-2-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order appoints 1st November 1996 as the day on which sections 1, 2 and 4 of the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995 shall come into force. These provisions apply only in England and Wales. Sections 1 and 2 establish for the High Court and county courts new rules relating to interest on judgment debts. Section 4 makes various consequential amendments.\nThe effect of this Order is to bring into force all those provisions of the Act which are not already in force, excepting section 3 (which relates to interest on arbitral awards). Part III of the Act was brought into force on 1 May 1996 (S.I. No. 1996/995). Section 3 has been superseded by section 49 of the Arbitration Act 1996 and will be repealed when that section is brought into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2515/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:44.335647+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."
}