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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-2003/schedule-36/paragraph-79",
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  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003",
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  "path": "schedule/36/paragraph/79",
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  "number": "79",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 6 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865 (witness’s conviction for offence may be proved if not admitted)—\n(a) for “A witness may be” there is substituted “ If, upon a witness being lawfully ”;\n(b) the words “and upon being so questioned, if” are omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2008/4",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008"
    }
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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."
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