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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-sex-offender-orders-rules-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2782",
  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Sex Offender Orders) Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-sex-offender-orders-rules-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n(a) a reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section so numbered in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998; and\n(b) a reference to a Schedule is a reference to a Schedule to these Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 37. Relevant amendments were made by sections 67 and 68 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2782/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:30.619485+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."
}