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  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016",
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  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Legal status of code of practice",
  "text": "(1) A court or tribunal in civil or criminal proceedings must take a code of practice into account when determining any question arising in the proceedings to which the code is relevant.\n(2) Breach of a code of practice does not of itself give rise to grounds for any legal claim whatsoever.",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:41.878642+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."
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