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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1901",
  "legislation_title": "The Divorce etc (Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-etc-pensions-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Divorce etc (Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 19th August 1996.\n(2) These Regulations shall not affect any action for divorce commenced before 19th August 1996 or any action for declarator of nullity of marriage commenced before that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev. in pt.",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/112",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc. (Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt.",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1050",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc. (Notification and Treatment of Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked in part",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/112",
      "affecting_title": "The Divorce etc. (Pensions) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1901/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:30.856454+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."
}