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  "legislation": "asp/2024/5",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024",
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  "heading": "Age of referral to children’s hearing",
  "text": "(1) The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”) is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 199 (meaning of “child”)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) for “16” substitute “18”,\n(ii) for “subsections (2) to (9)” substitute “subsection (2)”,\n(b) subsections (3) to (9) are repealed.",
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      "text": "S. 1 in force at 28.8.2024 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(a) (with reg. 3)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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