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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/45",
  "legislation_title": "Animal Welfare Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-act-2006",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Orders made on conviction for reimbursement of expenses",
  "text": "Where an order is made under section 33(4)(e), 36(1)(e), 37(3)(e), 38(3)(e) or 39(1), the expenses that are required by the order to be reimbursed shall not be regarded for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43) as a sum adjudged to be paid by a summary conviction, but shall be recoverable summarily as a civil debt.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 27.3.2007 for W. by S.I. 2007/1030, art. 2(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 6.4.2007 for E. by S.I. 2007/499, art. 2(2)(g)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/45/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:44.862642+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."
}