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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/627",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 17(3) of the principal Regulations (changes of solicitor) the words “and, in the case of legal aid made available under section 24 or section 25 of the Act, that it is in the interests of justice or, as the case may be, is reasonable, for him to receive or continue to receive criminal legal aid” shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/627/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:49:30.779539+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."
}