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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-armed-forces-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-regulations-2015/schedule/paragraph-55",
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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": "schedule/paragraph/55",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Registered Intermediaries",
  "text": "Registered Intermediaries are specialists who help vulnerable witnesses with an assessed communication difficulty to give their best evidence in court. The intermediary is approved by the court and can help to explain the questions and answers so far as necessary to help the witness but without changing the substance of the evidence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 55 in force at 16.11.2015, see reg. 1"
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  ],
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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."
}