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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007/section-79",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/3",
  "legislation_title": "Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-and-diligence-etc-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/79",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Abolition of adjudication for debt",
  "text": "(1) The diligence of adjudication for debt is abolished and any enactment or rule of law enabling an action of adjudication for debt to be raised ceases to have effect.\n(2) Subsection (1) above does not affect an action of adjudication for debt—\n(a) raised before; and\n(b) in which decree of adjudication is granted no later than 6 months after,\nthe day this section comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/3/section/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:03.393234+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."
}