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  "legislation_title": "Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1979",
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  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1979 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1979.\n(2) In this Order “the Order” means the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.\n(3) Where, by virtue of this Order, the operation of any of the provisions of the Order is excluded in relation to spent convictions the exclusion shall be taken to extend to spent convictions for offences of every description.\n(4) Part IV of Schedule 1 shall have effect for the interpretation of expressions used in that Schedule.\n(5) In this Order a reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as extended or applied by or under any enactment.",
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