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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-messengers-at-arms-and-sheriff-officers-rules-1988/article-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Training",
  "text": "(1) An officer of court shall be responsible for the training required by rule 3(1)(c) above of any person whom he employs for the purpose of becoming an officer of court.\n(2) The sheriff principal of the sheriffdom to whom an application for a first commission as a sheriff officer under rule 8(1) below is made may, having regard to the previous experience of the applicant, on the written application of that person, reduce the period of training to a period of not less than one year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2097/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:53:48.933597+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."
}