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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1849",
  "legislation_title": "The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1985",
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  "path": "article/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where the Director of Public Prosecutions has the conduct of proceedings under section 3 or 6 of the Act because he has taken them over or instituted them under one of those sections and those proceedings are then transferred (whether on appeal or otherwise) to an area where those sections are not in force, the provisions of the Act specified in Schedule 2 to this Order shall nevertheless continue to apply in relation to those proceedings.",
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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."
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