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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974/schedule-3/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/53",
  "legislation_title": "Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where a person (“A”) is asked a question, otherwise than in proceedings before a judicial authority, seeking information about—\n(a) A's or another person's previous conduct or circumstances,\n(b) offences previously committed by A or the other person, or\n(c) alternatives to prosecution previously given to A or the other person.\n(2) The question is to be treated as not relating to alternatives to prosecution that have become spent or to any ancillary circumstances and may be answered accordingly.\n(3) A is not to be subjected to any liability or otherwise prejudiced in law because of a failure to acknowledge or disclose an alternative to prosecution that has become spent or any ancillary circumstances in answering the question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 inserted (S.) (1.11.2011) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13), ss. 109(4), 206(1); S.S.I. 2011/354, art. 2(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2011/1",
      "affecting_title": "Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/53/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:00.485474+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."
}