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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-by-offenders-scotland-act-1978/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-by-offenders-scotland-act-1978/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/49",
  "legislation_title": "Community Service by Offenders (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-service-by-offenders-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision as respects the performance of unpaid work by persons convicted or placed on probation in Scotland; and for connected purposes\n[31st July 1978]",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "By Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 101(1), Sch. 12 para. 23; S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(1), Sch.1 it is provided (14.10.1991) that in relation to any time before the commencement of s. 70 of that 1991 Act (which came into force on 1.10.1992 by S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2) references in any enactment amended by that 1991 act, to youth courts shall be construed as references to juvenile courts."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent; Act wholly in force at 1.4.1980 see s. 15(2)"
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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."
}