{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-commencement-no-1-order-2007/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/74",
  "legislation_title": "The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-commencement-no-1-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 shall come into force on 12th February 2007—\n(a) section 42 (increase of maximum sentences for offences of having knives etc.);\n(b) section 54 and Schedule 4 (sexual offences: forfeiture and detention of vehicles etc.);\n(c) section 55 (continuity of sexual offences law); and\n(d) section 57 (amendment of section 82 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 42. Section 82(1) of the 2003 Act has been amended by section 17 of the Management of Offenders etc (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/74/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:07:24.825523+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."
}