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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/convention-rights-compliance-scotland-act-2001/schedule/paragraph-32",
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  "legislation": "asp/2001/7",
  "legislation_title": "Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/convention-rights-compliance-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/32",
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  "number": "32",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Part of this schedule—\n“existing life prisoner” means a person who is an existing life prisoner for the purposes of Part 1 of this schedule by virtue only of paragraph 1(a) above;\n“provisional release date” means, where that date has been fixed by reference to a month but not to a specific day in the month, the first day of that month, and, where that date would (but for this provision) be a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday and the prisoner would fall to be released then, means the last preceding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday;\n“public holiday” has the meaning given by section 27(8) of the 1993 Act;\n“punishment part” has the same meaning as it has in Part 1 of this schedule;\n“relevant date” means the date when this Part of this schedule comes into force.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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."
}