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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-sex-offender-and-anti-social-behaviour-orders-rules-1998/article-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Sex offender orders",
  "text": "Any summons or copy of an order required to be sent under these Rules to the defendant shall be either given to him in person or sent by first class post to his last known address and, if so given or sent, shall be deemed to have been received by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2682/article/5",
    "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."
}