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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-sex-offender-and-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-1998/article-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Sex offender orders",
  "text": "Where, after the hearing of an application to which rule 3 above applies, the court either dismisses the application, varies the sex offender order or discharges it by further order, the clerk of the court shall send a copy of the order dismissing the application, or varying or discharging the sex offender order, as the case may be, to each of the recipients of the notice under rule 3(4) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/615",
      "affecting_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2682/article/4",
    "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."
}