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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022/section-122",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-crime-sentencing-and-courts-act-2022",
  "path": "section/122",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "122",
  "heading": "Penalty for cruelty to children",
  "text": "(1) In section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (cruelty to persons under 16), in subsection (1)(a) (penalty on conviction on indictment), for “ten” substitute “14”.\n(2) Subsection (1) applies only in relation to offences committed on or after the day on which this section comes into force.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 122 in force at 28.6.2022, see s. 208(5)(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/section/122",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:35.152975+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."
}