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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-prisoners-act-2024-commencement-no-12-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1126",
  "legislation_title": "The Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (Commencement No. 12 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-prisoners-act-2024-commencement-no-12-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2026",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force section 18 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (c. 21) (“the 2024 Act”). These are the twelfth commencement Regulations made under the 2024 Act.\nRegulation 2 brings into force section 18 of the 2024 Act which inserts sections 10A and 10B into the Children Act 1989 (c. 41).\nRegulation 3 provides that the amendments made by section 18 of the 2024 Act apply only in relation to offences committed on or after 18 December 2026. Where an offence is committed over a period of more than a day, or a date range for the offence being committed is provided, it is treated as having been committed on the last day for the purpose of the regulation.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this statutory instrument as no impact, or significant impact, on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1126/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:48.422886+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."
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