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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-armed-forces-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-regulations-2015/schedule/paragraph-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-armed-forces-code-of-practice-for-victims-of-crime-regulations-2015/schedule/paragraph-81.json",
  "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/81",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Victim personal statement and the Service courts and Summary Hearings",
  "text": "The Service court (or Commanding Officer in a Summary Hearing) will pass what it judges to be the appropriate sentence, having regard to all the circumstances of the offence and of the offender. This will include taking into account, so far as the court (or Commanding Officer) considers it appropriate, the impact of the offence on you as set out in your VPS. Your VPS will be considered in exactly the same way whether or not it is read or played in court.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 81 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/schedule/paragraph/81",
    "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."
}