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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/43",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-act-1980",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Certain offences triable either way.",
  "text": "(1) The offences listed in Schedule 1 to this Act shall be triable either way.\n(2) Subsection (1) above is without prejudice to any other enactment by virtue of which any offence is triable either way.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:26:47.197891+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."
}