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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-15",
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  "legislation": "nisi/2005/1452",
  "legislation_title": "The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) In Article 25 of the 1998 Order (offences) after the words “any person who” there shall be inserted “ without reasonable excuse ”.\n(2) In that Article—\n(a) for “level 4” there shall be substituted “ level 5 ”;\n(b) for “three months” there shall be substituted “ six months ”.\n(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) affects the punishment for an offence committed before the coming into operation of that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2005/1452/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:43.341956+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."
}