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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-85.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/110",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988",
  "path": "section/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Intimation of appeal against sentence of death",
  "text": "The Clerk of Justiciary shall intimate an appeal against a conviction in respect of which sentence of death has been pronounced and the determination in any such appeal immediately on such intimation or determination, as the case may be, to—\n(a) the Secretary of State for Scotland; and\n(b) the governor of the prison in which the appellant is detained.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/110/section/85",
    "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."
}