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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-scotland-act-2010/section-1",
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  "legislation": "asp/2010/1",
  "legislation_title": "Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Founding principles",
  "text": "The founding principles of this Act are—\n(a) that the object of arbitration is to resolve disputes fairly, impartially and without unnecessary delay or expense,\n(b) that parties should be free to agree how to resolve disputes subject only to such safeguards as are necessary in the public interest,\n(c) that the court should not intervene in an arbitration except as provided by this Act.\nAnyone construing this Act must have regard to the founding principles when doing so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1962 c. 46, s. 74(6)(f) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1949 c. 87, s. 67(4) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1977 c. 37, s. 130(8) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1992 c. 52, s. 263(6) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 6(3))"
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1996 c. 17, s. 6(2) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1962 c. 46, s. 81(7) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 4(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1961 c. 34, s. 171 (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15: power to exclude or restrict conferred by 2007 c. 15, Sch. 5 para. 14 (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1949 c. 39, s. 8(2) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1992 c. 52, s. 212(5) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 6(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Ss. 1-15 excluded by 1962 c. 46, Sch. 7 para. 17(5) (as amended (5.6.2010) by The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/220), art. 1, sch. para. 4(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at 7.6.2010 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2010/195, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/1/section/1",
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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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