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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/2",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "text": "In Schedule 22 to the Sentencing Act 2020 (amendments of the Sentencing Code etc), after paragraph 54 insert—\n“54A In section 277A (presumption of suspended sentence order: person aged 21 or over)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(a), for “21” substitute “18”;\n(b) in the heading, for “person aged 21 or over” substitute “adults”.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 in force at 22.3.2026, see s. 49(4)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/2/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}