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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/2",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision about the sentencing, release and management after sentencing of offenders; to make provision about bail; to make provision about the removal from the United Kingdom of foreign criminals; and for connected purposes.\n[22nd January 2026]\nBe it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/2/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:43:31.731022+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."
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