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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015-commencement-no-2-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1428",
  "legislation_title": "The Serious Crime Act 2015 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015-commencement-no-2-regulations-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are the second commencement regulations made under the Serious Crime Act 2015 (c. 9) (“the 2015 Act”).\nRegulation 2 brings into force on 17th July 2015 section 73 of the 2015 Act, which inserts new section 5A of and Schedule 2 to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31) to make provision for female genital mutilation protection orders in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland. Regulation 2 also brings into force on the same day consequential amendments in Schedule 4 to the 2015 Act that relate to these provisions.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1428/note",
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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."
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