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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-custody-proceedings-rules-2009/article-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1098",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Custody Proceedings) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-custody-proceedings-rules-2009",
  "path": "article/23",
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  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Circumstances not provided for",
  "text": "Subject to any other enactment (including any other provision of these Rules), the judge advocate shall ensure that proceedings are conducted—\n(a) in such a way as appears to him most closely to resemble the way in which comparable proceedings of a magistrates’ court in England and Wales would be conducted in comparable circumstances; and\n(b) if he is unable to determine how comparable proceedings of a magistrates’ court in England and Wales would be conducted in comparable circumstances, in such a way as appears to him to be in the interests of justice.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1098/article/23",
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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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