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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-categories-of-offences-order-2004/schedule/part-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3346",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Categories of Offences) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-categories-of-offences-order-2004",
  "path": "schedule/part/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An offence under section 12 of that Act (buggery) if it was committed in relation to a person under the age of 16.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. Pt. 2 para. 7 in force at 29.12.2004, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 12 was amended by section 143 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33); sections 1 and 2 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 (c. 44) and section 119 of and Part V of Schedule 6 to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3346/schedule/part/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:12:54.390779+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."
}