{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003/schedule-6/paragraph-38",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/42",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/38",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 is amended as follows.\n(2) Omit sections 2, 2A, 2B and 3 (sex offender orders and interim orders).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Omit section 20.\n(5) In section 21 (procedural provisions with respect to orders)—\n(a) omit subsection (2);\n(b) in subsection (4)—\n(i) omit “or (2)”; and\n(ii) for “either of those subsections” substitute “ that subsection ”;\n(c) in subsection (5), omit “or 20”;\n(d) in subsection (6), omit “and sex offender orders” and “or 20(4)(a)”;\n(e) in subsection (7)(b)(i), omit “or, as the case may be, chief constable”;\n(f) omit subsections (7A) and (7B); and\n(g) in subsection (10), omit “or 20”.\n(6) Omit section 21A.\n(7) In section 22 (offences in connection with breach of orders), omit subsections (6) and (7).\n(8) In Schedule 8 (minor and consequential amendments), omit paragraph 144.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 38(3) repealed (23.3.2015) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), s. 185(1), Sch. 11 para. 50 (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2015/373, art. 4(f)(xii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/schedule/6/paragraph/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:48.870823+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."
}