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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997/article-72",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/172",
  "legislation_title": "The Standing Civilian Courts Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standing-civilian-courts-order-1997",
  "path": "article/72",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Offences taken into consideration",
  "text": "(1) Where the court has recorded a finding of guilty or a special finding on any charge, the accused may request the court to take into consideration any other offence against the 1955 Act committed by him of a similar nature to that of which he has been found guilty or in respect of which a special finding has been made and, upon such a request being made, the court may agree to take into consideration any such offence as to the court seems proper.\n(2) A list of the offences which the accused admits having committed and which the court agrees to take into consideration shall be signed by the accused and attached to the note of proceedings.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/172/article/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:04.339831+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."
}