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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1949-repealed-141996/section-68",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/94",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949 (Repealed 1.4.1996)",
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  "path": "section/68",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Commutation of death sentence to sentence of imprisonment.",
  "text": "Where His Majesty pardons any person who has been sentenced to death on condition that he serves a term of imprisonment, that person shall be deemed to have been sentenced by the court before which he was convicted to imprisonment for the said term.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:19:53.289166+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."
}