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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008-commencement-no1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2008/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1466",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (Commencement No.1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "The coming into force of paragraph 19(4) of Schedule 26 to the Act is no effect in relation to long-term prisoners serving a sentence for one or more offences committed before 4th April 2005 by virtue of having been transferred to the United Kingdom pursuant to a warrant under section 1 of the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 where the warrant was issued prior to the commencement of section 26 of the Act.",
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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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