{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/23",
  "legislation_title": "Arbitration Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Legal or other representation.",
  "text": "Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, a party to arbitral proceedings may be represented in the proceedings by a lawyer or other person chosen by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power to apply conferred (31.1.1997) by 1966 c. 41, s. 3 (as substituted by 1996 c. 23, s. 107(1), Sch. 3 para. 24) (with s. 81(2)); S.I. 1996/3146, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to apply conferred (31.1.1997) by 1988 c. 8, s. 6(1)(as substituted by 1996 c. 23, s. 107(1), Sch. 3 para. 49) (with s. 81(2)); S.I. 1996/3146, art. 3 (with art. 4, Sch. 2)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/23/section/36",
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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."
}