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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005-commencement-no-12-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/697",
  "legislation_title": "The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005-commencement-no-12-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement on 1st April 2008",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 shall come into force on 1st April 2008—\n(a) Section 163 (2);\n(b) Section 164 (1), (2) and (3);\n(c) Section 165 (1) (a) and (b);\n(d) Section 174 (2);\n(e) Schedule 14 paragraphs 2, 3 (a) and (b);\n(f) Schedule 17 Part 2 where it applies to the Police Act 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c.50"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:33:49.055531+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."
}