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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-1996-amendment-approval-of-sentencing-guidelines-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/229",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (Approval of Sentencing Guidelines) 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-1996-amendment-approval-of-sentencing-guidelines-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "High Court Of Justiciary\nMade 12th July 2018\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 16th July 2018\nComing into force 4th September 2018\nThe High Court of Justiciary makes this Act of Adjournal under the powers conferred by section 305 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 and all other powers enabling it to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c.46. Section 305 was amended by section 111(1) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 1) and by article 2 of S.S.I. 2015/338, and was extended by section 386(3)(a) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c.29), section 36A(4) of the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c.27), and section 32(5) of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 (c.2)."
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/229/introduction",
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  "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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