{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1868/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1868/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/100",
  "legislation_title": "Court of Session Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1868",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Lord Advocate’s concurrence not to be necessary in actions of reduction-improbation and ranking and sale.",
  "text": "It shall not be necessary to obtain the concurrence of Her Majesty’s Advocate to any summons of reduction-improbation, or ranking and sale, and such summonses in future shall not bear to be instituted with the concurrence of Her Majesty’s Advocate: Provided that nothing herein contained shall affect the right of Her Majesty’s Advocate to institute any such summons for the interest of Her Majesty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 15–44 repealed (S.) by Court of Session Act 1988 (c. 36, SIF 36:1), s. 52(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I (and re-enacted in part as referred to in Sch. 2 Pt. II of that Act)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/100/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:26.915642+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."
}