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  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1968",
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  "number": "4",
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  "text": "The applicant may at any time, not less than two clear days before the date fixed for the hearing, abandon his application by giving notice in writing to the appropriate officer of the Crown Court and to the chief officer of police; and if he does so the Crown Court (hereafter in this Schedule referred to as “the court”) may order the applicant to pay to the chief officer of police such costs as appear to it to be just and reasonable in respect of expenses properly incurred by him in connection with the application before notice of abandonment was given to him.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 2"
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      "text": "Words substituted by Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), s. 56(2), Sch. 9 Pt. II"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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