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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-entertainments-licences-drug-misuse-act-1997-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1009",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Act 1997 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-entertainments-licences-drug-misuse-act-1997-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force sections 1 to 3 of the Public Entertainments Licences (Drug Misuse) Act 1997 on 1st May 1998. Section 4 came into force on Royal Assent (21st March 1997).\nArticle 3 makes transitional provision so that the powers conferred on courts by sections 1(5) and 2(5) to revoke licences as a consequence of conviction for an offence only apply to offences committed after commencement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1009/note",
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  "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."
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