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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2444",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, SCOTLAND\nMade 19th September 1996\nLaid before Parliament 23rd September 1996\nComing into force 7th October 1996\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(2B), 19(4), 20(4), 36(1), (2)(a) and (c) to (h), (3)(e) and (f) and (4), 37(1) and (3) and 42 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the concurrence of the Treasury to Part III and regulation 28, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 47; subsection (2B) was inserted in section 17 by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40), Schedule 8, paragraph 36(6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}