{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-armed-forces-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1811",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Armed Forces Code of Practice for Victims of Crime) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-armed-forces-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Effect of non-compliance",
  "text": "(1) If a person fails to perform a duty imposed on him by the code of practice set out in the Schedule, the failure does not of itself make him liable to criminal or civil proceedings.\n(2) But the code of practice is admissible in evidence in criminal or civil proceedings and a court may take into account a failure to comply with the code of practice in determining a question in the proceedings.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 16.11.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1811/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:31:15.783148+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."
}