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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/apologies-scotland-act-2016/section-4",
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  "legislation": "asp/2016/5",
  "legislation_title": "Apologies (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/apologies-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "No retrospective effect",
  "text": "This Act applies to an apology only if—\n(a) the apology is made after the time when section 1 comes into force, and\n(b) the legal proceedings referred to in that section have not begun before that time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 19.6.2017 by S.S.I. 2016/256, reg. 2(2) (as amended by S.S.I. 2016/395, reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/5/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:38.578742+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."
}