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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-commencement-no-5-order-2000/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3075",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-commencement-no-5-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "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 December 2000:\n(a) sections 41 to 43 (restriction on evidence or questions about complainant’s sexual history);\n(b) paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 (transitional provisions) and section 67(4) in so far as it relates to it; and\n(c) subject to article 3 below, the entries in Schedule 6 (repeals) relating to:\n(i) sections 2 and 3 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976;\n(ii) paragraph 148 of Schedule 7 to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980;\n(iii) paragraph 35(3) of Schedule 10 to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994;\n(iv) paragraph 23 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 82."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1994 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1996 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3075/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:10:27.178687+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."
}