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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-act-1898/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/61-62/36",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Evidence Act 1898",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-evidence-act-1898",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Evidence of person charged.",
  "text": "Where the only witness to the facts of the case called by the defence is the person charged, he shall be called as a witness immediately after the close of the evidence for the prosecution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/61-62/36/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:29.318598+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."
}