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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conveyancing-amendment-scotland-act-1938/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/1-2/24",
  "legislation_title": "Conveyancing Amendment (Scotland) Act 1938",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conveyancing-amendment-scotland-act-1938",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of Act of 1924, s. 17.",
  "text": "In subsection (1) of section seventeen of the Act of 1924, after the words “forty years” there shall be inserted the words “in the Act of the Parliament Scotland, 1469, cap. 4 (’anent the Act of prescriptioun of obligationis’) in the Act of the Parliament of Scotland, 1474, cap. 9 (’anent the Act of prescripcione of obligacionis’), and”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of S. 2(1)(2), S. 4, 7(1), 7(2), Sch. is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/1-2/24/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:33:42.914406+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."
}