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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-mandatory-life-sentences-appeals-in-transitional-cases-order-2005/article-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2798",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Mandatory Life Sentences: Appeals in Transitional Cases) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003-mandatory-life-sentences-appeals-in-transitional-cases-order-2005",
  "path": "article/15",
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  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Presence of defendant at hearing",
  "text": "A defendant who is in custody shall not be entitled to be present on the hearing of an appeal to the House of Lords under this Order or of any proceedings preliminary or incidental thereto, except where an order of the House of Lords authorises him to be present, or where the House of Lords or the Court of Appeal, as the case may be, give him leave to be present.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1242",
      "affecting_title": "The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2011"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2798/article/15",
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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."
}