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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/schedule-15/paragraph-116A",
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  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
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  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/116A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "116A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An offence under section 15A of that Act (sexual communication with a child).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 116A inserted (3.4.2017) by Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9), s. 88(1), Sch. 4 para. 68(2); S.I. 2017/511, reg. 2(b)(iii)"
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  "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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