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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016/section-83",
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  "legislation": "asp/2016/1",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/83",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Plea of guilty",
  "text": "In the 1995 Act—\n(a) in section 70 (proceedings against organisations), subsection (7) is repealed,\n(b) in subsection (1) of section 77 (plea of guilty), the words from “and, subject” to the end are repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 83 in force at 17.1.2017 by S.S.I. 2016/426, art. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/1/section/83",
    "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."
}