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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1968/schedule-5/part-II/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/27",
  "legislation_title": "Firearms Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-act-1968",
  "path": "schedule/5/part/II/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An appellant may at any time, not less than two clear days before the date fixed for the hearing, abandon his appeal by giving notice in writing to the appropriate officer of the Crown Court and to the chief officer of police; . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1971/1292, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. II paras. 1–5 extended by Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 (c. 45, SIF 51:1), s. 12(5)"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}