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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Saving for power to bind over and other powers to defer sentence",
  "text": "Nothing in this Chapter affects—\n(a) the power of the Crown Court to bind over an offender to come up for judgment when called upon, or\n(b) any other power of a court to defer passing sentence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+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."
}