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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/age-of-legal-capacity-scotland-act-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/50",
  "legislation_title": "Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/age-of-legal-capacity-scotland-act-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision in the law of Scotland as to the legal capacity of persons under the age of 18 years to enter into transactions, as to the setting aside and ratification by the court of transactions entered into by such persons and as to guardians of persons under the age of 16 years; to make provision in the law of Scotland relating to the time and date at which a person shall be taken to attain a particular age; and for connected purposes.\n[25th July 1991]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act excluded (19.2.1996) by 1995 c. 6, s. 2(3); S.I. 1996/125, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 25. 9. 1991 see s. 11(2)"
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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."
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