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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-and-malicious-publication-scotland-act-2021/section-31",
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  "legislation": "asp/2021/10",
  "legislation_title": "Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-and-malicious-publication-scotland-act-2021",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Remedies: transitional provision",
  "text": "Nothing in sections 28 to 30 has effect in relation to defamation proceedings begun before the commencement of the section in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 8.8.2022 by S.S.I. 2022/154, regs. 1(2), 2"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/10/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:34.201134+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."
}