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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004/section-34",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/28",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Effect of non-compliance",
  "text": "(1) If a person fails to perform a duty imposed on him by a code issued under section 32, the failure does not of itself make him liable to criminal or civil proceedings.\n(2) But the code is admissible in evidence in criminal or civil proceedings and a court may take into account a failure to comply with the code in determining a question in the proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/28/section/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:58.721276+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."
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