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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-compensation-for-miscarriages-of-justice-alteration-of-overall-compensation-limits-order-2025/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348273892",
  "legislation_title": "The Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice (Alteration of Overall Compensation Limits) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-compensation-for-miscarriages-of-justice-alteration-of-overall-compensation-limits-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment to section 133A(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Justice Act 1988 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 133A (miscarriages of justice: amount of compensation)—\n(a) in subsection (5), after “overall compensation limit.” for “That” substitute “In the case of compensation payable by the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland, that”;\n(b) after subsection (5) insert—\n“(5A) In the case of compensation payable by the Secretary of State, the overall compensation limit for the purposes of subsection (5) is—\n(a) £1,300,000 in a case to which section 133B applies, and\n(b) £650,000 in any other case.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 133B was inserted by sections 61(1), (7) and (9) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273892/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:48.962377+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."
}