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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006/schedule-8/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/47",
  "legislation_title": "Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safeguarding-vulnerable-groups-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An order under paragraph 2 or 3 may—\n(a) modify any criminal offence created by this Act;\n(b) create any new criminal offence,\nbut the penalty for an offence created by virtue of this paragraph must not exceed level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 4 in force at 31.12.2007 for specified purposes by S.I. 2007/3545, art. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 4 in force at 11.2.2008 for specified purposes by S.I. 2007/3545, art. 4(q)"
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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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