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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-taking-account-of-convictions-eu-exit-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-3",
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  "legislation_title": "The Taking Account of Convictions (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
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  "heading": "Amendment of section 397 of the Sentencing Act 2020",
  "text": "In section 397 of the Sentencing Act 2020 (interpretation: general), after subsection (4) insert—\n“(5) For the purposes of this Code, proceedings are instituted when they are instituted for the purposes of Part 1 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (see section 15(2) of that Act).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 23."
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:49:09.020481+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."
}