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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-138",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/110",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988",
  "path": "section/138",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "138",
  "heading": "Duty of Edinburgh solicitor in Bills of Suspension",
  "text": "(1) This rule and rules 134 to 136 apply to Bills of Suspension and of Suspension and Liberation.\n(2) An Edinburgh solicitor who requests a first deliverance shall comply with the require-ments of rule 136(1) and (2) whether or not he is so nominated for the purposes of legal aid.\n(3) The Clerk of Justiciary shall in appropriate cases inform such a solicitor who has not been so nominated of the requirements of the rules where appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/110/section/138",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:46.518890+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."
}