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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005/schedule-15/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/15",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-organised-crime-and-police-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 18 (appeals relating to approvals)—\n(a) in subsection (1), after “court” insert “ (in Scotland, to the sheriff) ”;\n(b) in subsection (4), the existing words from “a magistrates'” to “Crown Court” become paragraph (a) and after that paragraph insert\n“or\n(b) the sheriff makes a decision on an appeal under that subsection, an appeal to the Sheriff Principal,”; and\n(c) in subsection (5)(d), the existing words from “the appropriate” to the end become sub-paragraph (i) and after that sub-paragraph add\n“or\n(ii) the sheriff or the Sheriff Principal may direct pending an appeal from a determination made on an appeal to the sheriff.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 9 in force at 30.6.2006 for S. by S.S.I. 2006/381, art. 2(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 9 in force at 6.4.2007 for E.W. by S.S.I. 2007/241, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/15/schedule/15/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:19.224345+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."
}