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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-social-work-scotland-regulations-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/251",
  "legislation_title": "The Access to Personal Files (Social Work) (Scotland) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/access-to-personal-files-social-work-scotland-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "RIGHTS OF THE SUBJECT\nMade 22nd February 1989\nComing into force 1st April 1989\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3(1), (2), (3) and (6) of the Access to Personal Files Act 1987, having consulted in accordance with section 3(4) of that Act such bodies representing social work authorities as he thought appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 37; section 3(6) contains a definition of “prescribed”."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/251/introduction",
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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."
}