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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1988/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2097",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and revocation",
  "text": "(1) This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) 1988 and shall come into force as follows:—\n(a) all rules except rules 11, 12, 14 and 15 on 30th November 1988;\n(b) rules 11 and 12 on 30th January 1989; and (c) rules 14 and 15 on 6th April 1989.\n(2) Rules 47 to 62 of the Rules of the Court of Session (Messenger-at-Arms)are hereby revoked.\n(3) This Act of Sederunt shall be inserted in the Books of Sederunt.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1965/321"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2097/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:53:48.933597+00:00"
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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."
}