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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/modern-slavery-act-2015-commencement-no-1-saving-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1476",
  "legislation_title": "The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2015",
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  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Saving and transitional provisions",
  "text": "The amendments and repeals made by the following provisions of the 2015 Act do not apply in relation to offences committed wholly or partly before 31st July 2015—\n(a) section 7(3);\n(b) section 46;\n(c) in Schedule 5—\n(i) paragraph 1;\n(ii) paragraph 5(2);\n(iii) paragraph 5(4), insofar as it relates to section 46(2) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003;\n(iv) paragraph 6(2), (3) and (4)(a);\n(v) paragraph 8; and\n(vi) paragraph 9.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1476/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:11.312391+00:00"
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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."
}