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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-sex-offender-and-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-1998/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2682",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Sex Offender and Anti-social Behaviour Orders) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-sex-offender-and-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Sex offender orders",
  "text": "(1) An application for a sex offender order under section 2 shall be in the form set out in Schedule 1 to these Rules or a form to the like effect.\n(2) Any summons directed to the defendant requiring him to appear before a magistrates' court to answer such an application shall be in the form set out in Schedule 2 to these Rules or a form to the like effect.\n(3) A sex offender order shall be in the form set out in Schedule 3 to these Rules or a form to the like effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2682/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:29.262239+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."
}