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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-procedure-act-1998-commencement-no-1-order-1998/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1837",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Procedure) Act 1998 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1998",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 2 of the Act shall apply to a person convicted as described in section 13(3A)(a) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 on or after 1st September 1998, and section 13 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 shall apply to any person so convicted before that date as if the Act had not been passed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 53: section 13(3A) is inserted by section 2 of the Act."
    }
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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."
}