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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984/schedule-3/paragraph-10",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/60",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-criminal-evidence-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any person who in a certificate tendered under paragraph 8 above in a magistrates’ court, the Crown Court or the Court of Appeal makes a statement which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true shall be guilty of an offence and liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both;\n(b) on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . . . or to both.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 10(b) repealed (5.11.1993) 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.XIV."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/schedule/3/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:58.179601+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."
}