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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-services-consultation-and-representation-act-1986-commencement-no5-scotland-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/94",
  "legislation_title": "The Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 (Commencement No.5) (Scotland) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-services-consultation-and-representation-act-1986-commencement-no5-scotland-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force in Scotland on 1st February 1988 section 13 of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986. This section makes provision for the identification of disabled children and young persons receiving special education, the assessment of their needs for social work services and notification of the likely date of their leaving special education to the local authority concerned with the provision of services to them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/94/note",
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  },
  "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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