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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-legal-aid-ruleschildren-amendment-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1194",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Legal Aid Rules)(Children) (Amendment) 1997",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, SCOTLAND\nMade 8th April 1997\nComing into force 11th April 1997\nThe Lords of Council and Session, under and by virtue of the powers conferred on them by section 38 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 ( and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with the Sheriff Court Rules Council in accordance with subsection (3) of that section, do hereby enact and declare:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 47. The interpretation of section 38 is affected by amendments made to section 41 of that Act by section 105(4) of, and paragraph 40 of Schedule 4 to, the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36)."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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