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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/repatriation-of-prisoners-act-1984/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/repatriation-of-prisoners-act-1984/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/47",
  "legislation_title": "Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/repatriation-of-prisoners-act-1984",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984.\n(2) This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.\n(3) ... This Act extends to Northern Ireland.\n(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for extending the provisions of this Act, with such exceptions, adaptations and modifications as may be speficied in the Order, to any of the Channel Islands, to the Isle of Man or to any colony.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(3) omitted (3.12.2014) by virtue of The Criminal Justice and Data Protection (Protocol No. 36) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3141), regs. 1(b), 114(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 9(3A) omitted (3.12.2014) by virtue of The Criminal Justice and Data Protection (Protocol No. 36) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3141), regs. 1(b), 114(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 9(2) fully exercised: 15.4.1985 appointed by S.I. 1985/550"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 9(4) extended (31.7.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 121(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 9(4) modified (8.5.2008) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 152(8), 153(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 9(4) extended (1.5.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), ss. 151(2)(c), 153(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/47/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:17.770537+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."
}