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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-1996-amendment-affirmations-and-oaths-2026/rule-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2026/99",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (Affirmations and Oaths) 2026",
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  "path": "rule/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement, etc.",
  "text": "(1) This Act of Adjournal may be cited as the Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (Affirmations and Oaths) 2026.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), it comes into force on the date that section 64(2) of the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 comes into force.\n(3) Paragraph 2(3)(a) and schedule 1 come into force on the date that section 63 of the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 comes into force.\n(4) A certified copy is to be inserted in the Books of Adjournal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2025 asp 12."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/99/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:31:05.887974+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."
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