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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-protected-material-act-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/39",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences (Protected Material) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-protected-material-act-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for regulating access by defendants and others to certain categories of material disclosed by the prosecution or by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in connection with proceedings relating to certain sexual and other offences.\n[21st March 1997]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: power to modify conferred (27.7.1999 for specified purposes and otherwiseprosp.) by 1999 c. 23, s. 38(7)(b)Act amended (1.9.2001) by 2001 c. 17, s. 57(2) (with ss. 56(2), 63(2), 78); S.I. 2001/2161, art. 2"
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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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