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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-310",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/310",
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  "number": "310",
  "heading": "Certificates of conviction",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) a person is convicted in England and Wales of an offence listed in Schedule 14 or 15,\n(b) the court by or before which the person is so convicted states in open court that the person has been convicted of such an offence on that day, and\n(c) that court subsequently certifies that fact,\nthat certificate is evidence, for the purposes of section 267, 273, 280 or 283 (extended sentences for adults and life sentences for second listed offence), that the person was convicted of such an offence on that day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 310 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2020/17",
      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2020"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/310",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+00:00"
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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."
}