{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/36",
  "legislation_title": "Court of Session Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Lord Advocate may be heard last.",
  "text": "In all exchequer causes, the appropriate Law Officer within the meaning of section 4A of the Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857 shall, in pleading on behalf of the Crown, have the privilege of being heard last.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23 substituted (20.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042, arts. 1(2)(b), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/36/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:52.535668+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."
}