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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995/schedule-4/paragraph-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995/schedule-4/paragraph-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/36",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 41 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of “legal aid”, for the words “Part III of the Social Work (Scotland Act 1968” substitute “ Chapter 2 or Chapter 3 of Part II of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 ” and\n(b) in the definition of “person”, the existing words from “does” to the end shall be paragraph (a) and after that paragraph there shall be added—\n“; and\n(b) includes a person under the age of sixteen years.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 40 wholly in force at 1.4.1997; Sch. 4 para. 40 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 105(1); Sch. 4 para. 40(b) in force at 1.11.1995 by S.I. 1995/2787, art. 3, Sch.; Sch. 4 para. 40 in force at 1.4.1997 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 1996/3201, art. 3(7) (with arts. 4-6) (as amended (7.3.1997) by S.I. 1997/744, arts. 2, 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/3",
      "affecting_title": "Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/3",
      "affecting_title": "Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2024/2",
      "affecting_title": "Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/36/schedule/4/paragraph/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:50.972491+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."
}