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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2001-commencement-no1-order-2001/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3234",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Act 2001 (Commencement No.1) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2001-commencement-no1-order-2001",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Nothing in article 2 of this Order, in so far as it relates to Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Act or to the repeal made by Part 7 of Schedule 7 to the Act in section 7(2) of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”) shall have effect where before 1st October 2001:\n(a) an allegation has been made which would (apart from this paragraph) be within section 1(1) of the 1992 Act, or\n(b) a person is accused of an offence which would (apart from this paragraph) be an offence to which that Act applies.\n(2) Nothing in article 2 of this Order, in so far as it relates to paragraphs 37 and 38 of Schedule 6 to the Act, shall have effect in relation to any proceedings which are referred to in a subsection amended by either of those paragraphs and which commenced before 1st October 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 34."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3234/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:28:16.989126+00:00"
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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."
}