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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991/schedule-5/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/53",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Board shall not be regarded as the servant or agent of the Crown or as enjoying any status, immunity or privilege of the Crown; and the Board’s property shall not be regarded as property of, or held on behalf of, the Crown.\n(2) It shall be within the capacity of the Board as a statutory corporation to do such things and enter into such transactions as are incidental to or conducive to the discharge of\n(a) its functions under this Part in respect of long-term and short-term prisoners; and\n(b) its functions under Chapter II of Part II of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 in respect of life prisoners within the meaning of that Chapter",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 substituted (1.7.1996) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(2), Sch. 10 para. 70; S.I. 1996/1608, art. 2 (S.I. 1996/1530 having been revoked by that instrument)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 1(2)(a)(b) substituted for words in Sch. 5 para. 1(2) (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 119, Sch. 8 para.97; S.I. 1998/2327, art.2(1)(y)(2)(gg)"
    },
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1997 c.43."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/53/schedule/5/paragraph/1",
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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."
}