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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-transport-safety-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/827",
  "legislation_title": "The Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railways-and-transport-safety-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2003 Act shall come into force on 29th March 2004—\n(a) section 83 (specimens, &c.), section 96 (specimens, &c.) and section 107 (road traffic: testing for drink and drugs) for the purposes of bringing into force that part of paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 (road traffic: testing for drink and drugs) for the purposes described in paragraph (b) of this article; and\n(b) the part of paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 (road traffic: testing for drink and drugs) relating to section 6A(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of State to approve a device for indicating whether the proportion of alcohol in a person’s breath or blood is likely to exceed the limits prescribed in sections 81(1) and 93(2) and (3) of the 2003 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/827/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:29:03.592595+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."
}