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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adults-with-incapacity-scotland-act-2000/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "asp/2000/4",
  "legislation_title": "Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adults-with-incapacity-scotland-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Defence Act 1842 (c.94)",
  "text": "(1) In section 15 of the Defence Act 1842—\n(a) after “nonage\" in both places there shall be inserted “ or mental incapacity ”;\n(b) “or not of whole mind\" shall be repealed;\n(c) for “out of prison, within this land, or of whole mind\" there shall be substituted “ within this land ”.\n(2) In section 27 of that Act for “lunacy\" there shall be substituted “ mental incapacity ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/3",
      "affecting_title": "Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/3",
      "affecting_title": "Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/4/schedule/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:28.069528+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."
}