{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006/section-59.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/38",
  "legislation_title": "Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Limitation period for anti-social behaviour orders",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In Article 3 of the Anti-Social Behaviour (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (SI 2004/1988 (NI 12)) (anti-social behaviour orders), after paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) Nothing in this Article affects the operation of Article 78 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (limitation of time in respect of complaints made in courts of summary jurisdiction).”",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 59(1) repealed (23.3.2015) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), s. 185(1), Sch. 11 para. 50 (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2015/373, art. 4(f)(xii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 59 in force at 6.4.2008 by S.I. 2008/791, art. 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:02.750793+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."
}