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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-commencement-no-4-order-2000/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2091",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-commencement-no-4-order-2000",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 shall come into force on 4th September 2000:\n(a) section 34 (complainants in proceedings for sexual offences);\n(b) section 35 (child complainants and other child witnesses);\n(c) section 38 (defence representation for purposes of cross-examination);\n(d) section 39 (warning to jury);\n(e) section 40 (funding of defence representation);\n(f) subject to article 3 below, in Schedule 6 (repeals), the entry relating to section 34A of the Criminal Justice Act 1988; and\n(g) paragraph 4 of Schedule 7.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2091/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:57.903415+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."
}