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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-amendment-no-5-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2082",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules Amendment No. 5) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-amendment-no-5-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Act of Adjournal)\nThis Act of Adjournal amends the Criminal Procedure Rules in order to provide firstly, a form of certificate for the purposes of Part I of the Sex Offenders Act 1997 and a form of notice (to be given to the accused with, or in advance of his being given, a copy of that certificate) as to the requirements of section 2 of that Act; and secondly a form of notice to be served on the prosecutor by a person accused of a sexual offence if that person disputes that an act done by him in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom constituted an offence under the law in force in that country or territory.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2082/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:57:41.427503+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."
}