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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-weapons-and-licensing-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-2016/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/85",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2016",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provision: section 66 of the 2015 Act",
  "text": "(1) The amendments made by section 66 of the 2015 Act do not apply in relation to an offence committed prior to 1st September 2016.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), where an offence is found to have been committed over a period of 2 or more days, or at some time during a period of 2 or more days, it is to be taken to have been committed on the first of those days.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/85/article/3",
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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."
}