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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-civil-legal-aid-rules-1987/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/492",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Civil Legal Aid Rules) 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-civil-legal-aid-rules-1987",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Civil Legal Aid Rules) 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.\n(2) In this Act of Sederunt, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986;\n“assisted person” means a person who is in receipt of civil legal aid in the cause in question;\n“court” means a court or tribunal specified in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Act;\n“legal aid certificate” means the document issued by the Board making civil legal aid available;\n“proper officer” means the Deputy Principal Clerk of Session, the principal clerk to the Scottish Land Court, a sheriff-clerk or sheriff-clerk depute, the clerk to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland or the registrar of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, as the case may be;\n“the Regulations” means the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/381."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/492/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:17.589897+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."
}