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Criminal Justice Act 1948

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83Short title, commencement and repeals.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act, 1948.

(2)This Act shall come into operation on such day as His Majesty may by Order in Council appoint:

Provided that different days may be appointed for the purposes of different provisions of this Act, and any reference" in any provision of this Act to the commencement of this Act shall, unless otherwise provided by any such Order, be construed as a reference to the commencement of that provision.

(3)The enactments specified in Parts I to III of the Tenth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule but without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (5) of section sixty-one, and of section seventy-eight of this Act; and Regulations 13, 15A and 17A of the Defence (Administration of Justice) Regulations, 1940, shall cease to have effect.

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