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  "legislation": "sdsi/2016/9780111030707",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2016",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "text": "In section 42 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (drugs courts), for subsection (2) substitute—\n“(2) It may be prescribed that there is to be a drugs court within a sheriffdom or sheriff court district, in which case the sheriff principal is, subject to subsection (1), to nominate a court within that sheriffdom or, as the case may be, sheriff court district to be a drugs court.”.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 7. Section 42(2)(b) was amended by the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), schedule 1, paragraph 30(a)."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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