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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-court-rules-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-2012/article-7",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/271",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court Rules) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-court-rules-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-2012",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Treaty of Lisbon terminology",
  "text": "(1) The Summary Cause Rules in Schedule 1 to the Act of Sederunt (Summary Cause Rules) 2002 are amended in accordance with the following subparagraph.\n(2) In rule 20.1 (interpretation of rules 20.2 to 20.5: European Court)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), in the definition of “reference”, at subparagraph (a), for “Article 234 of the E.E.C. Treaty” substitute “Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), omit ““E.E.C. Treaty”,”;\n(c) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(3) In paragraph (1), “the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union” means the treaty referred to in section 1(2)(s) of the European Communities Act 1972.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2002/132, amended by S.S.I. 2002/516; 2003/26 and 601; 2004/197; 2005/648; 2006/509; 2007/6, 339, 440 and 463; 2008/121, 223 and 365; 2009/107, 164, 294 and 402; 2010/279, 340 and 416; 2011/193 and 289; and 2012/144 and 188."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/271/article/7",
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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."
}