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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-commencement-no-7-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1739",
  "legislation_title": "The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/youth-justice-and-criminal-evidence-act-1999-commencement-no-7-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 shall, in so far as they are not already in force, come into force on 24th July 2002:\n(a) sections 16 to 27 and 30 (special measures directions in case of vulnerable and intimidated witnesses);\n(b) sections 31 to 33 (supplementary provisions);\n(c) sections 36 and 37 (prohibition imposed by court);\n(d) section 47 (reports relating to directions under chapter I or II);\n(e) sections 53 to 57 (competence of witness and capacity to be sworn);\n(f) paragraphs 1, 10 and 12 to 14 of Schedule 4 and section 67(1) in so far as it relates to those paragraphs;\n(g) in Schedule 6, the entries relating to—\n(i) the Criminal Evidence Act 1898, section 1;\n(ii) the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, section 80 (1), (5) and (8);\n(iii) the Criminal Justice Act 1988—\n(aa) section 32(1), (2), (3A) to (3E) and (6), except in so far as applied to proceedings before Service courts by the Service Courts Order;\n(bb) section 32A, except in so far as applied to proceedings before Service courts by the Service Courts Order; and\n(cc) section 33A;\n(iv) the Criminal Justice Act 1991\n(aa) section 52;\n(bb) section 54, except in so far as required for proceedings before Service courts; and\n(cc) section 55(2)(b), (4) and (6) except in so far as required for proceedings before Service courts;\n(v) the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, section 50 and paragraph 33 of Schedule 9;\n(vi) the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 paragraph 16(2)(b) and (3) of Schedule 2;\n(vii) the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, section 62 and paragraph 33 of Schedule 1;\nand section 67(3) in so far as it relates to those entries;\n(h) paragraphs 3 and 7 of Schedule 7 (transitional provisions and savings) and section 67(4) in so far as it relates to them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1898 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1988 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1991 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1994 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1995 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1996 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1739/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:53:22.932015+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."
}