The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Commencement No. 9, Saving Provision and Specification of Commencement Date) Order 2014

Provisions coming into force on 10th March 2014

2.  Subject to article 3, the following provisions of the 2012 Act come into force on 10th March 2014—

(a) section 139 (establishment or alteration of rehabilitation periods);

(b) section 141 (transitional and consequential provision) in so far as not already in force; and

(c) Schedule 25 (rehabilitation of offenders: consequential provision) except paragraph 4 (which omits section 3 of the 1974 Act(1)) (special provision with respect to certain disposals by children’s hearings under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968)).

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Section 3 of the 1974 Act was amended, in relation to Scotland, by paragraph 23(2) of Schedule 4 to the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36). Section 3 was also modified, in relation to Scotland, by article 2(3) of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Rehabilitation of Offenders) (Transitory Provisions) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/146).