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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/schedule-6/paragraph-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/schedule-6/paragraph-59.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/27",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/59",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 6 (incitement) omit subsection (3).\n(3) In section 7 (territorial scope of inchoate offences related to offences under external law corresponding to offences under the Act) omit subsection (4).\n(4) In section 8(3) (relevance of external law) omit “or by virtue of section 7(4) above”.\n(5) In section 9(2) (offences in relation to which British citizenship is immaterial) omit paragraph (d).\n(6) In section 16(4) (application to Northern Ireland) omit the words from “and any reference” to the end.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 59 in force at 1.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/2504, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:31.404406+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."
}