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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-operations-service-personnel-and-veterans-act-2021/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/23",
  "legislation_title": "Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/overseas-operations-service-personnel-and-veterans-act-2021",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Presumption against prosecution",
  "text": "The principle referred to in section 1(1) is that it is to be exceptional for a relevant prosecutor making a decision to which that section applies to determine that proceedings should be brought against the person for the offence or, as the case may be, that the proceedings against the person for the offence should be continued.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 30.6.2021 by S.I. 2021/678, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/23/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:27.436494+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."
}