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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/modern-slavery-act-2015-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/modern-slavery-act-2015-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/244",
  "legislation_title": "The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/modern-slavery-act-2015-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012",
  "text": "In paragraph 39(3) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 (sexual offences), in the definition of “sexual offence”—\n(a) in paragraph (a), after the comma omit “and”;\n(b) at the end of paragraph (b) insert—\n“, and\n(c) an offence under section 2 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (human trafficking) committed with a view to exploitation that consists of or includes behaviour within section 3(3) of that Act (sexual exploitation).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/244/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:42.229659+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."
}