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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989",
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  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Power to transfer application to another area office",
  "text": "If it appears to an Area Director that an application could, without prejudice to the applicant, be more conveniently or appropriately dealt with in another area office, the papers relating to the application shall be transferred to that other office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2036",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1113",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/17",
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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."
}