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  "legislation_title": "Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997",
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  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 1976 shall cease to have effect.\n(2) This paragraph shall be deemed to have come into force on 1st April 1996 and the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 1976 shall for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1995 be regarded as a repealed enactment within the meaning of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c.40."
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      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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