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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-act-1985-specified-proceedings-amendment-order-2014/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1229",
  "legislation_title": "The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prosecution-of-offences-act-1985-specified-proceedings-amendment-order-2014",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) Order 1999",
  "text": "(1) The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) Order 1999 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Part 1 of the Schedule, after paragraph 16 insert—\n“16A. The offence under section 1 of the Theft Act 1968, but only if it is the prosecutor’s case that the offence constitutes low-value shoplifting within the meaning of section 22A(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/904. Paragraphs 6 to 16 of the Schedule were added by S.I. 2012/2681. There are amendments to the Schedule which are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980 c. 43. Section 22A is inserted by section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12). Section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 will come into force on 13th May 2014 (article 3 of, and paragraph 17 of the Schedule to, S.I. 2014/949)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1229/article/2",
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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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