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  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Service Civilian Court) Rules 2009",
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  "heading": "Severance of charges",
  "text": "Where a defendant is charged with more than one offence in the same charge sheet, the court may direct, before the commencement of trial proceedings in relation to the charge sheet, that the charges be divided between two or more charge sheets.",
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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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