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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-prisoners-act-2024-commencement-no-12-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1126",
  "legislation_title": "The Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (Commencement No. 12 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-prisoners-act-2024-commencement-no-12-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) The amendments made by section 18 of the 2024 Act apply only in relation to offences committed on or after 18th December 2026.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), where an offence is found to have been committed over a period of 2 or more days, or at some time during a period of 2 or more days, it must be taken to have been committed on the last of those days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1126/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:48.422886+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."
}